title: [Usefulness of video-assisted cervicotomy on the extraction of foreign bodies].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Asturias, España. acocapelaz@yahoo.es
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coca Pelaz
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Llorente Pendás
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Suárez Nieto
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx; D008875:Middle Aged; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery