[A child with an oesophageal foreign body for 1.5 years].
A 2-year-old boy presented with a 1.5-year history of recurrent cough, wheeze and feeding problems. An x-ray of the thorax and an oesophagogram showed constriction of the trachea and proximal portion of the oesophagus. On endoscopy a foreign body was found, embedded in extensive granulation tissue. This could only be removed surgically via oesophagotomy, and turned out to be a plastic toy coin.
Mooij
Christiaan F
CF
UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen, Afd. Kindergeneeskunde, the Netherlands. c.mooij@cukz.umcn.nl
Zwitserloot
Annelies M
AM
Wijnen
Marc H W A
MH
Damen
Gerard M
GM
Marres
Henri A M
HA
Yntema
Jan-Bart
JB
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004947:Esophagus; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome