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Suggest A Treatment For Removing Fish Bone Stuck In Throat

i have had a fish bone stuck in my throat for several weeks. It is not detectable with larangoscopy or with endoscopy. I am scheduled for an MRI. Will the bone be detectable on MRI. If it is seen on MRI ( or not) , how can it be removed. it is very uncomfortable.
Fri, 2 May 2014
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Hello

Welcome in H.C.M.

Regarding your query for suspected fish bone in throat for several weeks and it is not visible in endoscopic examination.

Here I would like to say that is very rare that fish bone in throat can't be identifyed even in endoscopic examination. Since in your case about several weeks had passed so there is possibility that normal mucosa had grown over the fish bone though this possibility is very- very rare. In such situation endoscopic report remains normal but one may identify it in M.R.I. of throat. Once fish bone is identifyed it may be removed endoscopically.

In your case other possibility is of some chronic inflammatory changes in throat which is giving you feeling of fish bone while in reality there is no fish bone inside.

Probably you got the answer of your query.

Regards.
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Suggest A Treatment For Removing Fish Bone Stuck In Throat

Hello Welcome in H.C.M. Regarding your query for suspected fish bone in throat for several weeks and it is not visible in endoscopic examination. Here I would like to say that is very rare that fish bone in throat can t be identifyed even in endoscopic examination. Since in your case about several weeks had passed so there is possibility that normal mucosa had grown over the fish bone though this possibility is very- very rare. In such situation endoscopic report remains normal but one may identify it in M.R.I. of throat. Once fish bone is identifyed it may be removed endoscopically. In your case other possibility is of some chronic inflammatory changes in throat which is giving you feeling of fish bone while in reality there is no fish bone inside. Probably you got the answer of your query. Regards.