Vol.96 No.7 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No.7 July 2003
A Case of Fish Bone Foreign Body and Stuck in
the Deep Cervical Fascia
Gengo Ishii, Hirohito Umeno, Keiichi Chijiwa and Tadashi Nakashima
(Kurume University)
We described a rare case of fish bone foreign body which pierced the pharynx and stuck in the deep cervical fascia.
A 62-year-old male suffered from a sore throat after he swallowed fish, and a foreign body in the pharynx was suggested. Under routine fiberscopic examination, however, no fish bone was detected, so the patient was prescribed antibiotics, and sore throat disappeared. Because swelling of the pharynx persisted for six days, CT examination was carried out and the foreign body was found at the posterior part of the pharynx.
By extra-cervical incision, the foreign body was found penetrating the retropharyngeal space, stuck in the deep cervical fascia.
Key words : foreign body, deep cervical fascia, CT scan