title: Fish bone as a foreign body.
abstract: Fish bones are one of the most common foreign bodies in the upper aero-digestive tract. The use of plain X-ray in identifying fish bones has questionable value. We believe that the knowledge of the type of the fish ingested improves the diagnostic value of the neck X-rays. This study was designed to evaluate the relative radio-densities of the bones of commonly eaten fish in the UK. Twenty-three species of fish were studied and their bones were grouped into three depending upon their ratio-densities. This information is expected to be useful in identifying fish bones while reading plain radiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK. manoj.kumar@talk21.com
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: Seena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clayton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D010614:Pharynx / Q000293:injuries; D011859:Radiography