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Oesophageal foreign bodies caused by meat consumed during the Sacrifice Feast: Our single-centre experience
Ufuk Cobanoglu1, Duygu Mergan2, Ozgur Kemik3
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of YuzuncuYil.
Objective:
To compare the frequency of oesophageal foreign bodies during the month of Eid-ul-Adha with other months.
Methods:
This retrospective study was conducted at YüzüncüYil University Hospital, Van, Turkey, during 2012-16, and comprised individuals who were treated for bone and/or meat fragments lodged in the oesophagus. The number of hospital admissions with diagnosis of oesophageal foreign bodies during Eid-ul-Adha episodes were extricated and compares with similar date for the other months.Minitab 13 was used for statistical computations.
Results:
Among the 289 cases in the study, a pronounced increase in the number of patients was observed during Eid-ul-Adha, with the most frequent symptoms in 263(91%) patients being dysphagia and odynophagia. The number of patients with oesophageal foreign bodies diagnosed during Eid-ul-Adha were significantly higher than the other months (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
An increase in cases of oesophageal foreign bodies was found during Eid-ul-Adha.
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