Open AccessIMPACTION OF A SEED IN THE OESOPHAGUS;
Author(s) -
Naeem Akhtar,
Muhammad Taqi,
Ehsan Ibrahim
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2008.15.02.2761
Subject(s) - medicine , dysphagia , impaction , foreign body , vomiting , foreign body ingestion , ingestion , surgery , odynophagia , general surgery , foreign bodies , pediatrics
Dysphagia in children due to ingestion of foreign body is quite common.We report a case of dysphagia & vomiting in a 5 years old boy who presented in ENT OPD Allied Hospital Faisalabad.Our case is an unusual one with respect to the duration of symptoms which last for 3,1/2 years. The case wasmisdiagnosed as a case of stricture of oesophagus on a number of occasions. The foreign body seed was removedper orally with the help of rigid Oesophagoscope. Literature review has been done and discussed.