Double Fogarty balloon catheter technique for difficult to retrieve esophageal foreign bodies

Endoscopic Foley Catheter Technique for Removal of Esophageal Foreign Body

Impacted esophageal foreign body in children may pose a challenging clinical scenario to the gastroenterologists. Early recognition and treatment is imperative as the complications can be life threatening. The Foley catheter method of foreign body extraction has been used on some patients, but endoscopy remains the treatment modality of choice. Here we report an interesting case of a child with...

Esophageal foreign bodies.

An impacted esophageal foreign body is most often an urgent, rather than a life-threatening, medical situation. Pharmacologic or mechanical methods can be used to relieve the impaction, depending on the patient, as well as the location and physical properties of the foreign body. Flexible fiberoptic esophagoscopy is the accepted standard of care for removal of an object that is not smooth, radi...

Esophageal foreign bodies.

Esophageal foreign bodies in Yemen.

oreign body (FB) impaction in the esophagus is a common and serious health problem. Foreign bodies can lead to many complications such as esophageal perforation, mucosal erosions1 and fistulizations.2 Complication from esophageal FB can include death.3 The maximum incidence of esophageal FB occurs among children under 5 years old.4 The most common kind of the esophageal FBs in Oman are mutton b...

Bronchial foreign body removal under general anesthesia with a modified port, a fogarty balloon catheter and a grasping forceps

Corresponding author: Sang Ho Lim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea University Medical Center, Guro Hospital, Guro 2-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul 152-703, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2626-1437, Fax: 82-2-851-9897, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecomm...