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A 53-year-old previously healthy patient presentated with an impending airway obstruction due to a retropharyngeal and a para-oesophageal abscess caused by a delayed impacted foreign body,failed retrieval with rigid oesophagosopy. The patient was successfully managed by exploration of the neck with trance cervical approach in a district general hospital setting. Awareness and early referral from primary care setting could have prevented a potentially life threatening complication.
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