Published in IJCP
September 2018
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Huge Denture Causing Acute Obstruction in Esophagus and Stridor
September 04, 2018 | Shamendra Kumar Meena
We report a rare case of an unusually long foreign body (denture) impacted in the mid esophagus of a 62-year-old man.
He was illiterate and drank wine regularly. He came to me with some attendants with history of taking wine with lunch,
followed by acute obstruction since lunch at 12:30 pm on 22-5-2016 and reached Kota by 9:30 pm. Till then, he was nil
by mouth (NBM). Following investigations, we made a diagnosis of foreign body esophagus and with the help of rigid
esophagoscopy under general anesthesia, we removed the foreign body. Next morning, he could swallow food and water
without any difficulty, and we discharged him.
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