title: Migratory foreign body of neck in a battered baby: a case report.
abstract: Only a small number of ingested foreign bodies perforate the esophagus and even smaller fraction migrate extramucosally with no symptoms. Both of these events are even rarer after marble ingestion. We report here a case of battered baby with homicidal marble ingestion which perforated the esophagus and migrated into the soft tissue of neck. It was diagnosed after 21 days asymptomatic period. The foreign body migrated into the tracheo-esophageal groove, lying deep to strap muscles, which was removed by neck exploration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh 160012, India. drjayabakshi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Jaimanti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bakshi
authors.forename: Roshan K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Saravanan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karuppiah
mesh_terms: D002649:Child Abuse; D003287:Contrast Media; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D004939:Esophageal Perforation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media