title: Impacted chicken bone in the laryngopharynx: a case report.
abstract: Objective. To describe a rare case of an impacted large foreign body (chicken bone) in the laryngopharynx. Case Report. A 28-years-old man presented with pain in the neck of 5 days duration. The patient gave a history of severe choking sensation while eating chicken. Laryngoscopic examination revealed a linear whitish large chicken bone impacted in the left pyriform fossa. The bone was removed under local anesthesia with the guidance of telescopic laryngeal examination. Conclusion. This paper describes impaction of a large chicken bone in the hypopharynx in an adult male patient and its removal with guided telescopic laryngeal examination.
authors.affiliation: Communication and Swallowing Disorders Unit, ENT Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh 11411, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Tamer A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Mesallam