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DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-14254
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
A Pill Turned into a Foreign Body in a Patient in a Hurry
A. F. Celik, M.D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Cerraphasa Medical Faculty
Irfaniye sok
Manolya apt. No. 11/3
Yeşilköy 34800
Istanbul
Turkey
Fax: Fax:+ 90-212-5743186
eMail: E-mail:dryusuf@doruk.net.tr
Publikationsverlauf
Publikationsdatum:
31. Dezember 2001 (online)
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Figure 1A 55-year-old woman was referred to our endoscopy unit with a 1-month history of continuous retrosternal pain, dysphagia, and odynophagia located in the upper half of the esophagus. She had been suf- fering from these symptoms after swallowing three pills at once because of a troublesome headache. As she was in a hurry, she did not notice that one of them was still in its plastic cover. On barium meal examination, the pill was seen as a sharply radiolucent, round, filling defect (indicated by black arrowhead) in the upper thoracic esophagus. It was removed by endoscopy.
![](https://www.thieme-connect.de/media/endoscopy/200105/thumbnails/fig2.gif)
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Figure 2The size of the plastic-covered pill, 2 cm in diameter.
A. F. Celik, M.D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Cerraphasa Medical Faculty
Irfaniye sok
Manolya apt. No. 11/3
Yeşilköy 34800
Istanbul
Turkey
Fax: Fax:+ 90-212-5743186
eMail: E-mail:dryusuf@doruk.net.tr
A. F. Celik, M.D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Cerraphasa Medical Faculty
Irfaniye sok
Manolya apt. No. 11/3
Yeşilköy 34800
Istanbul
Turkey
Fax: Fax:+ 90-212-5743186
eMail: E-mail:dryusuf@doruk.net.tr
![](https://www.thieme-connect.de/media/endoscopy/200105/thumbnails/fig1.gif)
![Zoom Image](/products/assets/desktop/css/img/icon-figure-zoom.png)
Figure 1A 55-year-old woman was referred to our endoscopy unit with a 1-month history of continuous retrosternal pain, dysphagia, and odynophagia located in the upper half of the esophagus. She had been suf- fering from these symptoms after swallowing three pills at once because of a troublesome headache. As she was in a hurry, she did not notice that one of them was still in its plastic cover. On barium meal examination, the pill was seen as a sharply radiolucent, round, filling defect (indicated by black arrowhead) in the upper thoracic esophagus. It was removed by endoscopy.
![](https://www.thieme-connect.de/media/endoscopy/200105/thumbnails/fig2.gif)
![Zoom Image](/products/assets/desktop/css/img/icon-figure-zoom.png)
Figure 2The size of the plastic-covered pill, 2 cm in diameter.