[Usefulness of video-assisted cervicotomy on the extraction of foreign bodies].
Foreign bodies located in the upper aerodigestive tract, if not diagnosed and taken out speedily, may be the cause of great morbimortality. We present a female patient who arrived at the emergency department reporting she had swallowed a fish bone; it was finally located in the pre-vertebral muscle at the level of C3-C4, where it had entered from the oesophagus at 2 cm from the superior oesophageal sphincter. We used a cervicotomy assisted by endoscopy, showing a new application for videoendoscopy.
Coca Pelaz
Andrés
A
Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Asturias, España. acocapelaz@yahoo.es
Llorente Pendás
José Luis
JL
Suárez Nieto
Carlos
C
D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx; D008875:Middle Aged; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery