Migrating esophageal foreign bodies.
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.
Loh
Z M
ZM
Changi General Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889, Singapore.
Tan
K L
KL
Hsu
P P
PP
Lu
K S
KS
Eng
S P
SP
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