Unusual esophageal foreign body: Metal bottle cap

Abstract

Foreign body of esophagus is frequently an emergency encountered in gastroenter-oogy clinic practice. Endoscopic treatment is effective and safe. Metal bottle cap is rarely swallowed. Metal bottle cap extraction presents a challenge in the manage-ment also, endoscopic treatment should be done quickly since metal bottle cap is quite large and sharp object. Here, we presented a very rare cause foreign body -a metal bottle cap- in the upper esophagus which was extracted using alligator jaw grasping forceps.