OBJECTIVE To review national trends in the management of pediatric airway foreign bodies (A-FBs) and esophageal foreign bodies (E-FBs) that obstruct the airway. DESIGN Retrospective review using a national pediatric data set (Kids' Inpatient Database). SETTING Pediatric patients admitted across the United States during 2003. PATIENTS The Kids' Inpatient Database 2003 samples 2 984 129 ped...

Two cases of multiple foreign bodies, i. e., duplex coins in the esophagus are reported. These foreign bodies were removed by peroral esophagoscopy successfully. Significance of roentgenray diagnosis is emphasized, and subtle and yet specific roentgenograms of duplex coins in the esophagus are illustrated. ∗PMID: 4254202 [PubMed indexed for MEDLINE] Copyright c ©OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOO...

Among all diverticula of the esophagus, epiphrenic diverticula occur less frequently than those in the pharyngo-esophageal segment. Two simultaneously occurring diverticula in the epiphrenic esophagus are very rarely reported in the English literature. A 52-year-old woman had a 3-year history of troublesome dysphagia, heartburn, chest pain and cough. Initial investigation included a physical ex...

We report a case of mixed adenoendocrine carcinoma of the upper thoracic esophagus arising from ectopic gastric mucosa. A 64-year-old man who had been diagnosed with an esophageal tumor on the basis of esophagoscopy was referred to our hospital. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed the presence of ectopic gastric mucosa and an adjacent pedunculated lesion located on the posterior wall of t...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to report our experience in the management of foreign body (FB) impaction in esophagus in the Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-one patients (44 males, 27 females; mean age 32.99±28.57 years; range 1 to 81 years) who admitted to our clinic between January 2003 and December 2013 with a hi...

Congenital esophagobronchial fistula (EBF) is rarely seen in adults. We report a case of EBF detected in adulthood with a destroyed lung. A 67-year-old man experienced repeated pneumonia during his childhood. Since the age of 38, he had often suffered from bloody phlegm and always had a cough and sputum during oral intake. Before cardiac surgery for atrial fibrillation and valvular disease, com...

A 5-day-old male neonate was referred for removal of foreign body. Baby had accidentally ingested a gold finger ring presented to her by grandmother. Baby was brought to outside hospital in stable clinical condition. Initial Xray neck and chest showed radio-opaque foreign body at level of cricopharynx. Baby was posted for rigid esophagoscopy under anesthesia. But foreign body was not found in t...