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Is CT effective in cases of upper oesophageal fish bone ingestion?
  1. Debasis Das, SpR Radiology,
  2. Gabby May, Clinical Fellow, Manchester Royal Infirmary
  1. Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.044388

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      Reported by Debasis Das, SpR Radiology 
 Checked by Gabby May, Clinical Fellow, Manchester Royal Infirmary 
 Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London

      Three part question

      In [patients who are suspected to have fish or chicken bones impacted in the oesophagus] is [computerised tomography better than plain radiography] at [identifying and localising a foreign body]?

      Clinical scenario

      A 60-year-old man attends the emergency department complaining that a fish bone has got stuck in his throat. Clinical examination rules out impaction within the pharynx so you are concerned that the bone has become impacted …

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