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CT scan of the patient's neck.
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The patient was then admitted to the hospital, and urgent computed tomography (CT) scan of the neck was done and revealed a 3 cm linear foreign body embedded in the soft tissue medial to the left thyroid cartilage with surrounding hypodense soft tissue swelling causing mild indentation of the left vocal cord extending into the supraglottic region up to the left pyriform sinus and downwards minimally extending to the infraglottic region causing mild asymmetric narrowing of the involved laryngeal segments and causing mass effect on the glottis and supraglottic airway causing mild asymmetric narrowing (Figure 1).
Size of the thyroid cartilage window.
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Then, we proceeded to the external approach, and thyroid cartilage window with a Skeeter drill window of 12 mm was made and the foreign body was retrieved (Figures 2 and 3).
Foreign body was extracted.
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Then, we proceeded to the external approach, and thyroid cartilage window with a Skeeter drill window of 12 mm was made and the foreign body was retrieved (Figures 2 and 3).