Cricoid ossification mimicking an impacted foreign body.

• Wakisaka, Naohiro

• Miwa, Takaki

• Yoshizaki, Tomokazu

• Furukawa, Mitsuru

抄録

金沢大学医学部附属病院耳鼻咽喉科

A 54-year-old man complained of severe throat pain and showed subglottic oedema on fibre-optic endoscopy with a distinctly narrowed subglottic space on anteroposterior radiography of the neck and dense linear opacity at the level of the cricoid cartilage on lateral plain radiography. These findings suggested a foreign body just posterior to the cricopharyngeus, but a computed tomography (CT) scan demonstrated a dense calcified ridge on the posterior lamina of the cricoid cartilage but no foreign body.The patient improved symptomatically with systemic antibiotics and topical steroids, and gastrointestinal endoscopy did not detect any foreign body. This is a rare case of vertical ossification of the cricoid lamina masquerading as a foreign body.

収録刊行物

• The Journal of laryngology and otology

  The Journal of laryngology and otology 120 (7), 1-3, 2006-07-01

  Royal Society of Medicine

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050845760913976192
• NII論文ID: 120000806297
• ISSN: 17485460
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/9548
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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