Asymptomatic Esophageal Foreign Body in Infants

Li JYL and Chiang JW

Published on: 2022-08-26

Abstract

A one-year-old boy presented to the emergency department after his parents observed the patient had swallowed a one New Taiwan Dollar two hours ago. Lateral view x-ray showed a foreign body was located in the esophagus. Follow-up x-ray revealed that the single esophageal coin spontaneously passed to the sigmoid colon. The patient recovered well and was discharged home. Upon outpatient follow-up visit, there was no foreign body shown in the plain film.