[A complicated foreign body in the esophagus--case report]

Our female patient B. V. 47 years old, by eating the fried pork tongue, got strangled. Immediately it was accompanied by a very intense, strong pain in the lower portion of the neck. Otorhynolaryngologists performed esophagoscopy the same day, but corpus alienum was not found. Three days later, the patient came in the hospital again, complaining to an intense pain in the lower portion of the neck, so that she could not eat anything for three days. Immediately after being accepted to the hospital was done Rtg of cervical spine and lungs, as well as Rtg of passing through esophagus which demonstrated a piece of metal wire 4 cm in length at the level of the second thoracic vertebra. The wire perforated the esophagus at both lateral sides. Alter removal of the wire, mediastinitis was treated medically.