Abstract
1) A 37-year-old woman suffered from a pain in the laryngeal region soon after driking soup. When examined, the left vocal cord was found fixed on the paramiddle line and the posterior wall of the hypopharynx swolled. In the X-ray picture, a needle was found lodging sagitally between the esophagus and the larynx. By the incision of the cervical region, a needle of 3.6 cm in length was removed.
2) A 29-year-old man swallowed accidentally a hook when fishing. The hook in the right laryngeal orifice was removed by mean of a foreceps under the indirect laryngoscope.
3) A 70-year-old man suffered from a motorial disturbance in the cervical region after he ate fish. When examined, a piece of a fish bone was found across sagitally in the glosso-epiglottic fosssa and the lateral site of the hypopharynx. The bone was removed sucessfully by the incision of the neck.
4) When a 2-year-old boy was standing aside to see someone peeling shellfish, he suddenly showed agonized look. A doctor failed to remove a piece of shell by tracheotomy on account of mass bleeding. After then, he was sent to our hospital, where the removal of a piece of shell lodging in the vocal cord was performed successfully by means of the bronchoscope.
5) A 18-year-old woman, a schizophrenia, pierced her cervical region with a needle for suicide. The needle 3.6 cm in the length penetrated through the cricoid cartilage and the trachea. By the cervical incision, it was removed.
