Never fish your brother: a case of plastic fish hook in the oesophagus

Abstract

Foreign body ingestion is a common, yet sometimes dangerous entity encountered in paediatric population. Depending on the type, size and location of a foreign body, it can present with variety of symptoms. The purpose of this report is to present an unexpected radiolucent oesophageal foreign body impaction in a 4-year-old boy missed by imaging, but successfully removed using rigid esophagoscopy without any complications.