Fish bone from the digestive tract 'ran' out and lay on the floor of the patient's mouth

On August 14, the Ho Chi Minh City Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital announced that the hospital had performed surgery to remove a fish bone measuring about 15 mm from the floor of the mouth of male patient T.D.T (17 years old, residing in Kien Giang ).

According to the medical history, 6 months ago, Mr. T. went to a party, got drunk and had a foreign object stuck in his throat. Afterwards, Mr. T. went to the local hospital for a check-up but no foreign object was found. Mr. T. did not have much pain in swallowing and was able to eat and drink.

Xương cá từ đường ăn "di cư" ra cư ngụ ở sàn miệng hiếm gặp - Ảnh 1. — The fish bone was removed from the floor of the patient's mouth.

A week before being admitted to the hospital, Mr. T. had pain and swelling under his chin, so he went to several places for examination and finally went to the ENT Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. At the ENT Hospital, the doctor examined him and noted a hard mass under his chin on the right side with a diameter of about 3 cm, slightly painful when pressed.

The results of the diagnostic imaging (CT-Scanner) recorded a foreign object about 16 mm long in the right floor of the mouth, with signs of inflammation of the right floor of the mouth, inflammation spreading under the chin. The patient was diagnosed with an object in the floor of the mouth, complications of surrounding soft tissue abscess.

10 days ago, the patient underwent external surgery to open the floor of the mouth and remove a foreign body from the floor of the mouth. During the surgery, the doctor drained about 5 ml of pus and removed a foreign body, a fish bone, about 15 mm in size, from the floor of the mouth.

After surgery, the patient's pain was relieved. As of today (August 14), the surgical wound is dry, the patient's stitches were removed and he was discharged from the hospital.

According to statistics, each year, the Ho Chi Minh City ENT Hospital receives about 3,000 cases of foreign body aspiration. Most cases of foreign body aspiration are located in the hypopharynx, glottis, esophagus, but there are also foreign bodies that move from the floor of the mouth to the skin or below the thyroid gland, causing many dangerous complications such as mediastinitis, blood vessel perforation, abscesses, etc.

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