[Is esophageal foreign body still underestimated today?].

The reasons for underestimating oesophageal foreign bodies even today, and possibly persisting despite all advances in medicine, are illustrated by the case of a swallowed glass splinter in which the patient initially did not agree to endoscopy and in which the diagnosis of oesophageal wall perforation could be made only with the occurrence of the complication. Ultimately, oesophageal foreign bodies may in their complexity become a medicolegal problem.