Urgent Bite 143 - Ingested Fish Bones

Can a patient accurately locate a fish bone stuck in their throat?  And are X-rays good at locating them?

 

Check out the paper here - https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/07290/Can_the_patient_pinpoint_where_the_ingested_fish.39.aspx

 

Oh GM, Jung K, Kim JH, Kim SE, Moon W, Park MI, Park SJ. Can the patient pinpoint where the ingested fish bone is impacted? A single-centre, retrospective study. Medicine. 2022;101:30(e29399).

 

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