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Chronic retained foreign bodies in the esophagus
Rishendran R Naidoo1, Anunathan A Reddi
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa. naidoor21@nu.ac.za
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 3, 2004
Abstract:
Two cases of esophageal perforations consequent upon chronic retained foreign bodies are presented. In both patients a mediastinal mass associated with the foreign body was noted on chest radiography. Retrieval of the foreign bodies, although feasible by esophagoscopy in 1 patient, was unsuccessful in the second patient, thus necessitating thoracotomy.