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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Main Authors: Vincent R. Sicari, Joseph Pepe, Alfonso C. Cardenas Jr., Christopher Zabbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-08-01
Series:Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2065s42t