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74-year-old man with extra-esophageal ingested wire bristle. Magnified anterior chest radiograph shows a barely visible wire bristle projecting over the left upper thoracic spine (arrow).
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Chest radiograph showed a barely visible curvilinear metallic foreign body superior to the medial aspect of the left clavicle (Fig. 1).
74-year-old man with extra-esophageal ingested wire bristle. Esophagram shows the right deviation of the proximal esophagus (white arrow) secondary to soft-tissue inflammation adjacent to the wire bristle (black arrow). There is no evidence of extra-esophageal contrast leak.
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There was, however, a mass effect medial to the wire with right deviation of the opacified proximal esophageal lumen (Fig. 2).
74-year-old man with extra-esophageal ingested wire bristle. Axial CT image shows the wire bristle medial to the left common carotid artery (arrow).
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74-year-old man with extra-esophageal ingested wire bristle. Reformatted oblique CT reconstruction image shows the metallic foreign body anterior to C7 and posterior to the medial aspect of the left clavicle (arrow).
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