1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
2Otorhinolaryngology Resident, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
3Graduated Medical Student, Islamic Azad Medical University of Tehran, Iran
4Medicine Department, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
*Corresponding author: Eghbalnejad Mofrad, Medicine department, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Online published on 17 July, 2019.
Foreign body (FB) ingestion, a common and serious problem in children, can present with a wide variety of symptoms. This case report describes an unusual esophageal foreign body (EFB), in which the patient presented with dysphagia, odynophagia, vomiting, and regurgitation with history of ingesting her mother's pin. Plain radiograph of the soft tissue neck revealed the presence of a radio-opaque ingested foreign body (the pin) that located at the lower level of cricopharynx. We performed rigid esophagoscopy under general anesthesia. On esophagoscopy the pin was visualized in lower border of the cricopharynx trapped by the cricopharyngeal sphincter at its base. It was hard metallic in consistency and of approximately 2 cm in size.
Cricopharynx, dysphagia, foreign body, esophagoscopy
