The Dangers of Barbecuing: An Interesting Case of a Foreign Body in the Throat
Swallowing of foreign bodies (FB), and sensation of such in the throat, is a common complaint in the emergency department setting, with roughly 80,000 visits in 2010 for FB ingestion. 1 Grill wire brushes are a rarely reported, accidental FB ingestion, although recent literature suggests that it is...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2065s42t |
| Summary: | Swallowing of foreign bodies (FB), and sensation of such in the throat, is a common complaint in the emergency department setting, with roughly 80,000 visits in 2010 for FB ingestion. 1 Grill wire brushes are a rarely reported, accidental FB ingestion, although recent literature suggests that it is more common than initially thought. 2 This is a report of a female with acute onset odynophagia after a meal, with a normal laryngoscopic exam that used flexible fiberoptics. Evidence of a metallic linear density was present in the retropharynx on computed tomography imaging, most consistent with a wire from a grill wire brush. |
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| ISSN: | 2474-252X |