OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of foreign body, its location and clinical symptoms in patients with symptoms or positive history of foreign body swallowing and to assess the role of endoscopy in the management of foreign body removal. METHODS All patients referred to the Ear, Nose, Throat emergency ward of a general hospital in Kerman-Iran with a positive history of swallowing foreign b...

Objectives: This report concerns office-based esophageal foreign body extraction using transnasal videoendoscopy and advantages of this intervention. Methods: A videoendoscope with a working channel for irrigation, air insufflation and forceps was used. The diameter of the videoendoscope tip was 5.3 mm. Transoral esophageal foreign body extraction using transnasal esophagoscopy was performed un...

Background Foreign body (FB) aspiration requires a high index of suspicion for diagnosis and prompt management to avoid morbidity and mortality. This retrospective study was conducted to review pediatric foreign body aspiration at the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH). Materials and Methods The theater records of children managed for foreign body aspiration...

introduction: determination of type and location of trapped objects and endoscopic observations among children with foreign-body ingestion. materials and methods: we evaluated 105 endoscopic records of patients presenting with foreign-body ingestion from 2001–2011. results: button batteries were the most common objects removed (41%). the lower segment of the esophagus was the most common trappi...