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Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Published on: September 11, 2018
Removal of sub-mucosal foreign body (metal wire) from the pharynx using image intensifier
C Bhatt1, N Vishnu Swaroop Reddy, T N Reddy
1Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Staffordshire General Hospital, Stafford, UK. rina@ankit.freeserve.co.uk
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|December 13, 2003
Abstract:
It is well known how difficult it is to localize a foreign body in the sub-mucosal tissues. This is a report of a male who swallowed a metal wire which lodged in the pharyngeal sub-mucosal tissue. The foreign body was localized using an image intensifier and removed successfully.

