Foreign Body of the Epipharynx |
Eui Young Yang, MD, Jung Ho Choi, MD, and Wal Bo Cha, MD |
Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine Korea University, Korea |
上咽頭異物症例 |
梁義永 · 崔重鎬 · 車曰甫 |
高麗大學校 醫科大學 耳鼻咽喉科學敎室 |
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ABSTRACT |
The authers experienced a case of foreign body of the epipharynx. In foreign body of food passage, coin is the most common foreign body. An infant, aged 1 year and 6 months-old, miss wallowd a coin. Though the emergency exmination with chest X-ray, it was not seen on chest X-ray film. Thereafter repeated examination with chest X-ray including head, the coin was discovered in the epipharyngeal portion and removed with forceps easily. The auther report with its literature and consideration. |
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