Abstract
This report describes a 59-year-old woman with a foreign body in the neck found by chance during an X-ray examination. The foreign body was discovered when she visited a neighbourhood hospital because of a heavy feeling in the posterior region of her neck. When she was referred to our hospital, this complaint had diminished, but surgical removal of the foreign body was conducted. A lateral neck incision revealed a 20 mm long wire, the tip of which was embedded in the esophageal wall. Following removal, the wire was shown to the patient, who indicated that she had not seen it before. We concluded that the foreign body had penetrated the wall of the esophagus when the woman was a child.
