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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-05-01
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Series: | Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576615300117 |
Summary: | 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 Colombian Amazon region. The patient had ingested a foreign body three days earlier, which required surgical exploration. A fish bone was found lodged in the anterior wall of the common carotid artery and had perforated the hypopharynx. Direct carotid and hypopharynx suture repair was performed with interposition of a muscle flap between the suture lines. Patient recovered uneventfully without complications during follow up. |
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ISSN: | 2213-5766 |