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[Esophageal fish bone migrating to the lung; report of a case]
Kousuke Fujino1, Takeshi Mori, Kentaro Yoshimoto
1Department of Surgery, Kumamoto Red Cross Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
Abstract:
A 55-year-old female felt a transient chest pain soon after a fish meal. Sixteen days later she presented a local clinic with fever of 38°C. After chest computed tomography( CT) and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed fish bone embedded in the wall of the middle portion of the esophagus, she referred to our hospital 22 days after the meal. Thirty days after the meal ,endoscopic removal of the fish bone was challenged bygastroentenologists in vain. Chest CT after the attempt showed migration of the fish bone to the lung adjacent to the right inferior pulmonary vein. The fish bone which stuck out from the lung after division of the pulmonary ligament was removed successfully under thoracoscopic surgery. The patient is well 26 months after the surgery.
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