Schneider Kari, Kennebeck Stephanie, Madden Lyndsay, Campbell Avril
Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Pediatr Emerg Care. 2013 Aug;29(8):924-5. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31829ec4c7.
Oral foreign bodies and hair-thread tourniquets are fairly common findings. The combination of the two, however, is rarer. In this article, we present a case involving a hair-thread tourniquet of a circumvallate papillae (more commonly known as a "taste bud"). We discuss methods for removal of hair-thread tourniquets as well as techniques for examining children for oral foreign bodies.
