2015 Volume 86 Issue 1 Pages 116-117
The patient was a woman in her 50s who experienced abdominal pain after eating a sea bream. Her symptoms persisted, so she visited our hospital. Computed tomography showed a high-density linear shadow below the tracheal bifurcation and elevated concentration of fatty tissue surrounding this, leading to the diagnosis of an esophageal foreign body thought to be a fish bone. The patient underwent emergency hospitalization for endoscopic examination. A granulomatous polyp was observed in the esophagus, but there was no indication of a fish bone, so the patient was followed up. During a subsequent follow-up endoscopy approximately 1 month later, the fish bone became visible and was removed with a snare.
We report a case that we encountered in which a fish bone penetrated and became impacted in the esophageal mucosa.
