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High digestive videoendoscopy showing fragment of filiform bone in left lateral esophageal wall and nasogastric tube in the right lateral wall
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At the hospital, it was done high digestive videoendoscopy, where it was evidenced the presence of foreign body perforating the upper cervical esophagus (Figure 1).
Cervical computed tomography (axial section, with contrasts, venous phase) emphasizing emphysema (long arrows) and perilesional inflammatory process (head of arrow)
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The foreign body was removed using endoscopic device and, soon after, the patient was submitted to the computed tomography, showing emphysema and perilesional inflammatory process, but absence of collections (Figure 2).