Common carotid perforation secondary to an ingested fish bone in a child. Case report

Foreign body ingestion is a common consultation for the pediatric surgeon. Only 1% of the cases require open surgical approach and some have rare but severe complications as vascular fistulas to the esophagus and hypopharynx. We are presenting a case of a nine-year-old girl referred from the Colombi...

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Main Authors: Santiago Correa, Juan Javier Valero, Juan Pablo Torres, Fernando Fierro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576615300117