Author(s)

Ismaïl Lawani¹, Dansou Gaspard Gbéssi^2*, Aboudou Raimi Kpossou³, Yacoubou Imorou Souaïbou², Freddy H. R. Gnangnon², Francis Moïse Dossou¹, Delphin Kuassi Mehinto⁴, Jean-Léon Olory-Togbé²

¹General Surgery Unit, CHUD/OP Porto-Novo, Cotonou, Bénin.
²Visceral Surgery Unit “A”, CNHU-HKM, Cotonou, Bénin.
³Hepato-Gastroenterology Unit, CNHU-HKM, Cotonou, Bénin.
⁴Visceral Surgery Unit “B”, CNHU-HKM, Cotonou, Bénin.

The cola nut (Cola nitida), is a rare foreign body. Its voluntary ingestion, for ritual practices, is a situation of exceptional occurrence, and jamming it in the esophagus is a therapeutic emergency. Here, we report the case of an adult patient, with a cola nut measuring 3 cm in diameter swallowed for a ritual purpose, jammed at the bottom of his esophagus. A surgical extraction was performed by gastrostomy after a failed attempt of endoscopic extraction. There ensued a complication of a left-esophageal fistula. The various aspects of this case are analyzed in the light of the literature review.

Foreign Body, Esophagus, Cola Nut, Gastrostomy

Lawani, I. , Gbéssi, D. , Kpossou, A. , Souaïbou, Y. , Gnangnon, F. , Dossou, F. , Mehinto, D. and Olory-Togbé, J. (2016) Voluntary Ingestion of a Cola Nut Stuck into the Esophagus: An Unusual Foreign Body (FB). Surgical Science, 7, 239-243. doi: 10.4236/ss.2016.75034.