An unusual foreign body migrating through time and tissues
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BACKGROUND Beside infections, foreign body incidences are amongst the most frequently encountered pathologies in pediatric otolaryngology. While inhaled foreign bodies represent an acute emergency, symptoms of ingested foreign bodies sometimes appear with some delay. Typically fishbones tend to go unnoticed in a first examination and become symptomatic by fever, odynodysphagia and torticollis. Exceptionally, foreign bodies migrate and become manifest with a considerable delay. CASE REPORT We present a case of a young girl who presented with an unusual foreign body which migrated through the cervical tissues causing repeated cervical tumescence's before being diagnosed. CONCLUSION Repeated cervical abscesses or tumescence's in children or young patients should alert the treating physician to seek for an underlying pathology such as unnoticed foreign bodies or malformations (e.g. cysts). Further the scarce literature on these migrating foreign bodies is discussed.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Head & Face Medicine
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006