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Case Reports
. 1990 Jun;104(6):511-2.
doi: 10.1017/s0022215100113039.

Thyroid lobectomy for removal of a fish bone

A al Muhanna  1 , K A Abu Chra, H Dashti, A Behbehani, N al-Naqeeb
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Thyroid lobectomy for removal of a fish bone

A al Muhanna et al. J Laryngol Otol. 1990 Jun.

Abstract

A 42-year-old female Jordanian patient presented with a history of sudden painful dysphagia following swallowing of a fish bone. Though soft tissue X-rays showed a foreign body in the neck, repeated oesophagoscopies failed to reveal it. Computed axial tomography was done and showed a fish bone embedded in the left thyroid lobe. Left thyroid lobectomy was carried out and the fish bone was seen within the lobe surrounded by an area of acute inflammation.

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