Safe extraction of an impacted open safety pin from the esophagus: report of 9 cases

Golz, Avishay; Netzer, Aviram; Gordin, Arie; Westerman, S. Thomas; Joachims, Henry Z.

doi:10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.01.006

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Volume 27, Issue 6 , Pages 413-417, November 2006

Safe extraction of an impacted open safety pin from the esophagus: report of 9 cases

Avishay Golz, MD
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
- Corresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center, PO Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel. Tel.: +972 4 8542480; fax: +972 4 8542772.
Aviram Netzer
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
Arie Gordin
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
S. Thomas Westerman
- Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Henry Z. Joachims
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel

Received 2 October 2005

Abstract

Purpose

Foreign body ingestion is a common problem in children. An infrequent ingested item is an open safety pin (SP), which may become lodged in the esophagus and presents the endoscopist a challenge to his surgical judgment and technical skills.