Case report: Ultrasound diagnosis of fish bone penetration into the thyroid

Clin Case Rep. 2019 Dec 4;8(1):182-184. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.2589. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Gaëtan Cavelier^{1

2}, Katharina Ostermann¹, Mihaela Horoi¹, Raymond Huvenne³, Didier Dequanter¹, Alexandra Rodriguez¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of ENT & Head and Neck Surgery CHU Saint-Pierre Brussels Belgium.
² Faculty of Medicine Free University of Brussels Brussels Belgium.
³ Department of Radiology CHU Saint-Pierre Brussels Belgium.

Abstract

Ultrasonography is useful in the diagnosis of foreign body migrations (eg, fish bones) into the soft tissues of the neck.

Keywords: fish bone; migration; penetration; thyroid gland; ultrasounds.

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Case Reports