American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding 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.
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  • Aviram Netzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Arie Gordin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • S. Thomas Westerman

      Affiliations

    • Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Henry Z. Joachims

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rambam Medical Center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine–Technion, Haifa, Israel

Received 2 October 2005

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PII: S0196-0709(06)00007-X

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.01.006

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 6 , Pages 413-417 , November 2006

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