tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" An unusual foreign body migrating through time and tissues"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: An unusual foreign body migrating through time and tissues | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Case report An unusual foreign body migrating through time and tissues Basile N Landis and Roland Giger Address Service d ORL et de Chirurgie cervico-faciale Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève Switzerland Email Basile N Landis - Roland Giger - Corresponding author Published II September 2006 Received 13 February 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006 2 30 doi 1746-160X-2-30 Accepted 11 September 2006 This article is available from http content 2 1 30 2006 Landis and Giger licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Beside infections foreign body incidences are amongst the most frequently encountered pathologies in pediatric otolaryngology. While inhaled foreign bodies represent an acute emergency symptoms of ingested foreign bodies sometimes appear with some delay. Typically fishbones tend to go unnoticed in a first examination and become symptomatic by fever odynodyspahgia and torticollis. Exceptionally foreign bodies migrate and become manifest with a considerable delay. Case report We present a case of a young girl who presented with an unusual foreign body which migrated through the cervical tissues causing repeated cervical tumescence s before being diagnosed. Conclusion Repeated cervical abscesses or tumescence s in children or young patients should alert the treating physician to seek for an underlying pathology such as unnoticed foreign bodies or malformations . cysts . Further the scarce literature on these migrating foreign bodies is discussed. Background The most frequent ingested foreign bodies in the Ear Nose and Throat sphere are chicken and fish bones 1 . The symptoms are .