Foreign body

Unusual Presentation of Cervical Esophageal Foreign Body

A 42-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of odynophagia and neck pain after swallowing a piece of bone. Anteroposterior (AP) and lateral neck X-ray showed the foreign body. Rigid esophagoscopy under general anesthesia was performed and foreign body extracted by rigid bronchoscopy.

Unusual ocular foreign body.

excised on August 20, 1948, and a piece of London Hospital sterile amniotic membrane (Morley's process-fat-free) of the same size as the raw area, was sutured into position. The appearance of the eye some four days after the operation is shown in Fig. 2, August 24, 1948, The appearance of the conjunctiva a month after operation is shown in Fig. 3, September 29, 1948. It is felt that these repre...

Intra-ocular foreign body.

IN the 10 years 1946 to 1955, 816 cases of intra-ocular foreign body were admitted to Moorfields Eye Hospital, and 272 of them, which are analysed in this report, have been followed up for at least 3 years, no other method of selection being used. If the out-patient notes were not sufficiently up to date, a letter was written to the patient at his last known address asking him to re-attend for ...

Foreign-body pulmonary embolism.

A fifty-year-old woman, never smoker, with an L5 vertebroplasty performed four years previously was referred to our unit because of a radiographic finding. The patient had had dyspnea on heavy exertion for four years, episodes of chest tightness and palpitations. Physical examination was normal. CT images revealed a calcific density foreign body in the left pulmonary artery and similar smaller ...

Pediatric foreign body aspiration.