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Vol. 81. Issue 2.
Pages 107-108 (April - June 2016)
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Vol. 81. Issue 2.
Pages 107-108 (April - June 2016)
Clinical image in Gastroenterology
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Chicken bone as swallowed foreign body
Hueso de pollo como ingestión de cuerpo extraño
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U.G. Rossia,
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Corresponding author. San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Department of Radiology and Interventional Radiology, Via Pio II, 3 20153 Milan, Italy, Tel.: +39 02 40222465; fax: +39 02 40222465.
, G.R. Passonib, M. Cariatia
a Department of Radiology and Interventional Radiology, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy
b Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology - Endoscopy Unit, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy
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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).

Figure 1.

Fiber optic examination that reveals a bone-like foreign body (*) in the proximal esophagus.

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Figure 2.

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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Figure 3.

The extracted sharp-edged chicken bone (foreign body) broken into 2 pieces for its removal.

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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.

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