[Usefulness of video-assisted cervicotomy on the extraction of foreign bodies]

Foreign bodies located in the upper aerodigestive tract, if not diagnosed and taken out speedily, may be the cause of great morbimortality. We present a female patient who arrived at the emergency department reporting she had swallowed a fish bone; it was finally located in the pre-vertebral muscle at the level of C3-C4, where it had entered from the oesophagus at 2 cm from the superior oesophageal sphincter. We used a cervicotomy assisted by endoscopy, showing a new application for videoendoscopy.