A Case of Esophageal Foreign Body Resulting in Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis in an Infant / 대한이비인후과학회지

ABSTRACT

Esophageal foreign bodies in infants are frequently obscured because of the non-specific symptoms and signs and the lack of historical clues. Infants in such cases often present vomiting, odynophagia, dysphagia or ptyalism without a history of foreign body ingestion. Recently we encountered a case of the vocal cord palsy caused by an esophageal foreign body which was found when studying the vocal cord palsy in an infant. We report this case with review of literature.