A Case Report of Migrating Chicken Bone to the Pleural Space

Asma Matoug Elwerfelli*, Abdalhai Alshoubi, Alan Dean, Joseph Dominguez, Joseph Lee, Barry Wilson and Babak Mahyar

Saint Joseph Medical Center/Dignity Health, USA

^*Correspondance to: Asma Matoug Elwerfelli 

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Abstract:

Esophageal perforation due to foreign body usually presents clinically with severe pain occurring within hours of the insult. Chest radiographs are usually abnormal demonstrating cervical or mediastinal emphysema, pneumothorax, or pleural fluid. Occasionally a foreign body may migrate into adjacent structures and in some cases lead to devastating complications like aortoesophageal and aortopulmonary fistulas. This case is unusual as it exhibits an atypical case of chronic asymptomatic esophageal perforation presenting with foreign body migration inciting an insidious presentation.

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Elwerfelli AM, Alshoubi A, Dean A, Dominguez J, Lee J, Wilson B, Mahyar B. A Case Report of Migrating Chicken Bone to the Pleural Space. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2020; 5: 1886..