Real steak knives of cincinnati: Repeated foreign body ingestion with novel endoscopic removal.

Abstract

Repeated ingestion of foreign objects presents a multidisciplinary endoscopic dilemma. We report a 32-year-old female patient with history of multiple previous foreign body ingestions requiring several past exploratory laparotomies, who presents with a knife blade in the esophagus. We present a novel method of using a rigid cervical esophagoscope with a salivary bypass tube. The tip of the knife was isolated into the cervical esophagoscope, and the salivary bypass tube advanced off the cervical esophagoscope over the knife, shielding the serrated edge during removal preventing laceration to the esophagus. Laryngoscope, 129:567-568, 2019.