An uncommon source for oesophageal foreign body: Fidget spinner

Abstract

Fidget spinner is a new handheld toy with potential choking and ingestion hazard. Our objectives are to describe clinical presentation of a child with fidget spinner ingestion and draw attention to danger associated with fidget spinner. A 3-year-old boy presented with painful swallowing and feeling of something stuck in the throat. A chest radiograph revealed a radiopaque foreign body with a disc-like component. Rigid oesophagoscopy revealed a foreign object with disc battery and battery holder circuit board. Clinicians should consider the fidget spinner as one of many varieties of toys that has potential for button battery ingestion or aspiration.

Open Thoracic Surgery for Removal of a Two-Year-Old Impacted Esophageal Coin

“…Foreign esophageal bodies are common finding across all age groups but are particularly found to be predominant among paediatric population with a peak age range of 3 months to 6 years, the exploratory period of every child with the tendency to put anything into the mouth [1] [2] [3] [4]. It has similar predilections for both males and females [2].…”

“…Foreign esophageal bodies are common finding across all age groups but are particularly found to be predominant among paediatric population with a peak age range of 3 months to 6 years, the exploratory period of every child with the tendency to put anything into the mouth [1] [2] [3] [4]. It has similar predilections for both males and females [2]. As found in this patient, in children, the most common foreign body ingested has been reported in several literatures to Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery be coins, but several other objects such as disc batteries, toys, magnets, toy parts, safety pins and screws have also been retrieved [1] [2] [3] [5] [6].…”

“…It has similar predilections for both males and females [2]. As found in this patient, in children, the most common foreign body ingested has been reported in several literatures to Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery be coins, but several other objects such as disc batteries, toys, magnets, toy parts, safety pins and screws have also been retrieved [1] [2] [3] [5] [6]. In the adult and elderly population, commonly ingested foreign bodies are fish bones and dentures respectively, though meat chunks causing oesophageal impaction have also been reported [1] [6].…”