2020
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2019.07.054
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Think Twice Before Extracting a Harmless Foreign Body From the Upper Esophagus

Abstract: An 86-year-old man with a past medical history of squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx and total laryngectomy with tracheostomy presented for evaluation of severe iron deficiency anemia (hemoglobin of 6.4 g/dL). Our patient had no upper gastrointestinal symptoms and underwent upper endoscopy. Upon slowly endoscopic withdrawal, a foreign body in the upper esophagus was visualized. This looked like the bumper from a conventional percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (Figure A). Careful investigation of the patien… Show more

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