ArticleInternational medical case reports journal2026
Direct-Vision Removal of an Impacted Esophageal Padlock in a 7-year-Old at a Resource-Limited Facility: A Case Report.
Article in International medical case reports journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
21 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Oesophageal foreign-body impaction is a frequent emergency that is typically managed with endoscopy. In resource-limited and remote health facilities, strict adherence to standard algorithms is impractical. Context-adapted clinical reasoning is sometimes critical for ensuring safe and timely management. Case Presentation: We report a case of a 7-year-old male child who presented to a remote health facility with acute dysphagia and odynophagia following accidental ingestion of a padlock confirmed on neck radiography. In the absence of endoscopic services, the padlock was successfully removed under direct laryngoscopy with Magill forceps under general anesthesia. The patient recovered uneventfully and was discharged 24 hours after observation. Conclusion: This case highlights the importance of pragmatic clinical judgment and adaptive decision making in low-resource settings. When standard endoscopic services are unavailable, carefully selected alternative approaches can save life.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.