A case of esophageal foreign body

Abstract

The patient is a man in his 50s. He visited our hospital because of a feeling lump in his chest after eating meat with persistent dysphagia. A plain CT scan of the chest revealed an esophageal foreign body proximal to the second natural constriction, followed by endoscopic foreign body removal. Sub-circumference ectopic gastric mucosa of the upper esophagus was found at the upper end of the foreign body, which seems to have a relationship with the impaction.