Migrating foreign body into the common carotid artery and internal jugular vein

• Main Authors: Tang, I.P, Singh, S., Shoba, N., Rahmat, O., Shivalingam, S., Gopala, K.G, Khairuzzana, B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Auris Nasus Larynx 2009
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RF Otorhinolaryngology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2257/1/Shoba.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2257/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Ingested foreign bodies are a fairly common otorhinolaryngological emergencies encountered in Malaysia. The vast majority of these foreign bodies are fish bones which most commonly are impacted at the level of the cricopharynx. Rarely, however, a foreign body may migrate extraluminally and may even...