A 43-year-old female arrived at our emergency department, having swallowed a chicken bone. Her clinical symptoms were slight drooling and bloodstained saliva. The patient underwent fiber optic examination that revealed a bone as a foreign body in the mucosa of the proximal esophagus that appeared to cause partial perforation (fig. 1). A computed tomography scan confirmed a bone-like foreign body with pointed edges at the level of the proximal esophagus with limited perforation (fig. 2A-C). The patient underwent urgent endoscopic retrieval of the foreign body with no complications and the object was confirmed to be a sharp piece of chicken bone (fig. 3).
A) Axial and B) coronal computed tomography images showing the bone-like foreign body (arrowhead) at the level of the proximal esophagus, with small air bubbles in the soft tissue (arrows) as a sign of limited perforation. C) Coronal computed tomography volume-rendered 3D reconstruction image of the bone-like foreign body (arrowhead).
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Please cite this article as: Rossi UG, Passoni GR, Cariati M. Hueso de pollo como ingestión de cuerpo extraño. Revista de Gastroenterología de México. 2016;82:107–108.