title: Migrating esophageal foreign bodies.
abstract: Ingested foreign bodies which migrate extraluminally, although rare in occurrence, are fraught with the potential to cause life-threatening complications.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the management of this pathology.
  
  
  METHODS
  A series of four patients with such occurrences is presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A discussion on the safe management of such seemingly innocuous foreign bodies allows the authors to propose a therapeutical algorythm.
authors.affiliation: Changi General Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889, Singapore.
authors.forename: Z M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Loh
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Eng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004947:Esophagus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed