A. Etiuma, A. Umana, R. Mgbe, Steve Egbe, Roseline Akpeke, O. Bassey
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Abstract
There are many etiological factors for foreign body impaction in the oesophagus. Such impaction could pose a major morbidity 3 and sometime mortality. We report an unusual table spoon impaction in the lower oesophagus complicating domestic emergency management of convulsion in an epileptic.