Case report. Swallowed fishbone in an emergency setting and imaging findings

Authors

  • Anselm Ejike Chukwuani Department of Radiography and Radiological Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.
  • Emmanuel O Chukwurah Department of Radiology, Reddington Multi-Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.

Keywords:

foreign body, soft tissue neck, x-ray

Abstract

A 27-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department after swallowing a fish bone while eating dinner. A lateral neck radiograph was performed and a fishbone was detected as a fairly-distinct linear radiopaque density in the pre-cervical soft tissues at the level of the C4/C5 vertebral bodies.

 

Author Biographies

Anselm Ejike Chukwuani, Department of Radiography and Radiological Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.

Senior Medical Radiographer,

Radio-diagnostic Imaging,

Department of Radiology,

Reddington Multi-Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.

 

Emmanuel O Chukwurah, Department of Radiology, Reddington Multi-Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.

Head and Chief Radiologist,

Radio-diagnostic Imaging,

Department of Radiology,

Reddington Multi-Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.

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Published

2017-12-04

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Case Reports

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