title: Migratory foreign body in the neck.
abstract: Oesophageal penetration and migration of foreign bodies are fairly rare occurrences. Most reported cases in the literature involve fish bones, which are eventually found in the lateral neck soft tissue or thyroid lobule. We present a case of a migrating fish bone in an elderly female which was found embedded in her right sternocleidomastoid muscle. The fish bone was successfully removed via neck exploration. Appropriate literature is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. tharan71@yahoo.com
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sreetharan
authors.forename: Narayanan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prepageran
authors.forename: Satwant
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004935:Esophageal Diseases; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed