[Foreign body in the pharynx incidentally found]
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Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Published on: September 11, 2018
K Doumbia-Singare1, S Timbo, M Keita
1Service d’ORL et de chirurgie cervico-faciale du CHU Gabriel Touré BP 267 Bamako, Mali.
Abstract:
Diagnosis and therapeutic of foreign bodies of the oropharynx are not difficult in general. The diagnosis is usually obvious for the adult. We report a case of foreign body of the oropharynx observed in a patient, psychologically stable, which occurred two months after a traumatism. The patient was not aware of the existence of the foreign body. It was extracted two months after the accident by endo-oral track under general anaesthesia. The nature of the foreign body, the fortuity of its discovery and its presence for a long time reported here are of interest.
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