[Treatment and complications of oesophagic foreign bodies].
OBJECTIVE
Revision of characteristics and diagnosis methods and treatment of foreign bodies (FB) embed in the oesophagus (OFB).


METHODS
We have realized a retrospective study since 1994 to 2002, with 77 cases with suspicion of ingestion of the (OFB) treated in our ENT Service.


RESULTS
We realized a total of 83 oesophagoscopies, flexible and rigid, that reaveled the oesophagic superior third, as the most common place of embedding, dysphagia as the most predominant symptom and coins and bones as the most common type of FB. Most of the cases did not present any kind of complications, but we present a case of death.


CONCLUSIONS
The oesophagoscopies are a very useful method conditioned by the kind of FB and experience of the surgeon. We must not subestimate the complications of the embedding of the OFB, because they can be mortals, although they are.
González Pena
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Hospital Universitario Joan XXIII, Tarragona.
Martínez Novoa
M D
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Masgoret Palau
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Flores Martín
J C
JC
Risco Arenas
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J
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed