TITLE:
Voluntary Ingestion of a Cola Nut Stuck into the Esophagus: An Unusual Foreign Body (FB)
AUTHORS:
Ismaïl Lawani, Dansou Gaspard Gbéssi, Aboudou Raimi Kpossou, Yacoubou Imorou Souaïbou, Freddy H. R. Gnangnon, Francis Moïse Dossou, Delphin Kuassi Mehinto, Jean-Léon Olory-Togbé
KEYWORDS:
Foreign Body, Esophagus, Cola Nut, Gastrostomy
JOURNAL NAME:
Surgical Science,
Vol.7 No.5,
May
17,
2016
ABSTRACT: The cola nut (Cola nitida), is
a rare foreign body. Its voluntary ingestion, for ritual practices, is a
situation of exceptional occurrence, and jamming it in the esophagus is a
therapeutic emergency. Here, we report the case of an adult patient, with a
cola nut measuring 3 cm in diameter swallowed for a ritual purpose, jammed at
the bottom of his esophagus. A surgical extraction was performed by gastrostomy
after a failed attempt of endoscopic extraction. There ensued a complication of
a left-esophageal fistula. The various aspects of this case are analyzed in the
light of the literature review.