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[Intraoperative CT Is Useful in Diagnosing a Fish Bone Foreign Body Buried in the Tongue: A Case Report]
- Source :
- Nihon Jibiinkoka Gakkai kaiho. 118(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Fish bones as a foreign body are often present in the palatine tonsil and the base of the tongue. Such foreign bodies can often be diagnosed with inspection only. However, it is difficult to diagnose and extirpate a foreign body when it is buried in the oral/pharyngeal mucosa. We experienced a case of a fish bone foreign body buried in the tongue muscle layer. We report herein on the case of a 49-year-old man with a fish bone foreign body buried in his tongue. The patient had noticed a sore throat since eating a sea bream and was referred to our department. Visual inspection revealed no foreign body, but CT imaging revealed a fish bone in the tongue. We performed an emergency surgical exploration of tongue to locate the fish bone. Because the fish bone as a foreign body was unable to be confirmed by palpation, we identified the location of the fish bone by intraoperative CT. This is a rare case of a fish bone buried in the tongue muscle layer, and intraoperative CT was useful in identifying the positon of the foreign body.
- Subjects :
- Male
Palpation
Bone and Bones
Eating
Tongue
Sore throat
medicine
Animals
Humans
Foreign Bodies
Fish bone
Tongue muscle
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Fishes
Anatomy
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Intraoperative ct
medicine.symptom
Foreign body
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00306622
- Volume :
- 118
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nihon Jibiinkoka Gakkai kaiho
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cd50fe354662fe02af91c55d0a8d3f60