A FISH BONE APPEARING in NECK

Phan Thanh Sơn, M.D; Nguyễn Đức Duy Linh, M.D; Nguyễn Ngọc Xuân Giang, M.D – BÌNH

AN GENERAL HOSPITAL_KIÊN GIANG_VIỆT NAM

Male patient 79 yo had foreign body on right neck (see pictures).

HISTORY

4 days before of hospitalization, during dinner with stingrays, in sneezing, a 79 yo patient took

out and in some fish parts, and then feeling caught something in his throat but still eating.

Morning after he went to hospital as felt felt like a head of bone at his right neck.

ULTRASOUND

Ultrasound at right neck revealed a fish bone in soft tissue, echogenic line in subcutaneous

edema around the fish bone, but no vascular.

ENT ENDOSCOPY

ENT endoscopy detected edema of right piriformis recess due to fish bone perforating

outside from the throat.

CT SCAN

CT –Scan confirmed the fish bone in the right neck, not intact the right vessels of the neck.

The fish bone was removed out of the right neck, with 2.8 cm long of size.

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