Chronic stridor in a nine-month-old—Consider esophageal foreign body

We present the case of a 9-month-old female with seven weeks of stridor.Initial lateral neck radiograph showed widening of the retropharyngeal space with significant mass effect displacing the cervical and thoracic trachea. She was taken emergently by ENT to the operating room for intubation. In the OR, flexible fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation was achieved. Through multimodality imaging and several procedures, she was found to have ingested part of a Christmas ornament, which lodged in the esophagus, causing a perforation with retropharyngeal phlegmon.
Source: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Extra - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Tags: Case Report Source Type: research