title: [Extraction of the esophageal foreign bodies by cervicotomy: our experience about 9 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present our experience of the extraction of the esophageal foreign bodies by cervicotomy route.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive retrospective study from 2006 to 2010 realized in the ENT Departments of Yopougon and Treichville's Teaching Hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  9 (3.3%) of 270 patients underwent surgery to remove esophageal foreign bodies. The average age of the patients was of 14.6 years (extremes: 8 months and 49 years). The foreign bodies were fish bone, hook of clothes peg, medallion, denture and weld. Cervicotomy was performed at once in 4 cases and after failure of esophagoscopy in 5 cases. There were 2 complications (pharyngostoma and suppuration of the operating site).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The cervicotomy must be quickly performed in case of perforation with or without neck abscess, sharp or voluminous bodies.
authors.affiliation: CHU de Bouaké, Service ORL et Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, 01 BP 1174 Bouaké 01, Côte d'Ivoire. ngattia@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: N'Gattia
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Kacouchia
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Kouassi
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Vroh Bi
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Mobio
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kouassi-Ndjeundo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Buraïma
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tanon-Anoh
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kouassi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Portmann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D004946:Esophagostomy; D004947:Esophagus / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017211:Treatment Failure; D055815:Young Adult