title: Entrapment of an air gun pellet between the thyroid cartilage and the lining mucosa in a patient with a penetrating neck injury: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Air guns, either modern or traditional models, are powerful weapons that are capable of causing serious or life-threatening injuries.
  
  
  METHODS
  Here, we present a case of an air gun pellet injury, with the pellet trapped between the thyroid cartilage and the lining mucosa of a 58-year-old Iranian man.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Entrapment of air gun pellet between thyroid cartilage and the lining mucosa, as presented in our case, may cause diagnostic challenges through the clinical presentation of slight odynophagia.
authors: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Rasool-e-akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. md_mostafa_h@yahoo.com.
authors: Mostafa
authors: M
authors: Hosseini
authors: Mohammad Reza
authors: MR
authors: Keramati
authors: Afshin
authors: A
authors: Heidari
authors: Mohammad Kazem
authors: MK
authors: Olad-Ghobad