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- Title
Fish Bone Migration-Culprit Leading to Retro-Paraoesophageal Abscess, Mediastinitis and Vocal Cord Palsy.
- Authors
M., Paul; J. J., Ng; M., Shashigopalan; N. W. S., Johnson
- Abstract
Fish bone ingestion and impaction are known to everyone. However, such benign incidences have been reported to be associated with multiple potentially life threatening complications. Anatomical features of the oesophagus forms the basis for such incidences. We report here an elderly diabetic gentleman with an unusual left retro-paraoesophageal abscess complicated with oesophageal perforation, mediastinitis and vocal cord paresis which were fundamentally caused by a migrated fish bone into the lower part of the neck requiring therapeutic external neck exploration. Management of this case and its complications are described here comprehensively.
- Subjects
VOCAL cords; ESOPHAGEAL perforation; ABSCESSES; PARALYSIS; VOCAL cord dysfunction; FISHES; MEDIASTINITIS
- Publication
IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia, 2019, Vol 18, Issue 3, p176
- ISSN
1823-4631
- Publication type
Article