A 45-year-old woman swallowed a small piece of metal from a kitchen sieve, and an X-ray confirmed a 2-centimeter sliver lodged somewhere in her throat and upper airway. But when doctors looked with a camera, they could not see it, even during a first examination under anesthesia. So they went fishing with a magnet.
The case, published online July 17 in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, comes from ear, nose, and throat surgeons at St. Vincent's University Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. The authors describe it as a novel use of the device.
