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Fish bone as a foreign body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Manoj Kumar ,
George Joseph ,
Seena Kumar  and
Malcolm Clayton
Manoj Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.
George Joseph
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.
Seena Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.
Malcolm Clayton
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, UK.
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Abstract

Fish bones are one of the most common foreign bodies in the upper aero-digestive tract. The use of plain X-ray in identifying fish bones has questionable value. We believe that the knowledge of the type of the fish ingested improves the diagnostic value of the neck X-rays. This study was designed to evaluate the relative radio-densities of the bones of commonly eaten fish in the UK. Twenty-three species of fish were studied and their bones were grouped into three depending upon their ratio-densities. This information is expected to be useful in identifying fish bones while reading plain radiography.

Keywords

Foreign BodiesFish ProductsRadiography
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 117 , Issue 7 , July 2003 , pp. 568 - 569
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2003

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