We discuss clinical symptoms and radiological findings of variable esophageal foreign bodies as well as therapeutic procedures in Caucasian pediatric patients. A retrospective study of 192 cases of suspected esophageal foreign bodies between 1998 and 2010 was conducted. Data were statistically analyzed by chi-square test. A foreign body was removed from a digestive tract of 163 children aged 6 ...

BACKGROUND There are no clinical guidelines on best practices for the use of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy in diagnosing head and neck cancer. This retrospective cohort study examined variation in the use of bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy across hospitals in Michigan. METHODS A total of 17,828 patients were identified with head and neck cancer in the 2006 to 2010 Michigan State Ambulatory Su...

Foreign body (FB) ingestion is very common in Malaysian population. The most commonly ingested FB is fish bone. Common presenting symptoms include FB sensation, odynophagia and or sharp pricking pain during swallowing. A careful history and physical examination is very important. Despite negative laryngoscopy and rigid esophagoscopy, persistent symptoms warrants further radiographic imaging stu...

Background: The foreign body impaction (FBI) is an emergent medical condition caused by any object, material, or food trapped in the upper gastrointestinal tract, most commonly swallowing, iatrogenic, penetrating trauma. cases reported literature are acute, presenting within few days after accident. As far as we concerned, such a late presentation of esophageal FBI has not been to date. Case Pr...