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. 2023 Jul 26;96(1149):20230046. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20230046

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Figure 8. — Foreign bodies. (a,b) Impacted fishbone. A 36-year-old female presented with severe dysphagia and inability to move her neck following ingestion of fish. (a) Lateral neck soft tissue radiograph revealed a small radiopaque object anterior to the C4 vertebral body, with associated prevertebral soft tissue swelling. (b) Unenhanced coronal CT Neck confirmed the presence of a 28mm horizontally orientated fish bone lodged in the hypopharynx. (c) Benign calcifications. Axial CT Neck image in a different patient shows two right-sided tonsilloliths. It is important not to confuse these with foreign bodies.