[Foreign bodies of the esophagus. Apropos of 130 cases].

This study reports a series of 130 foreign bodies of the oesophage treated at the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako. We tried to determine their nature, their intra-oesophage struck period, and the possible consequences being observed. At the some time the age and the sex are given. A predominance of foreign bodies in a male sex child (67%) is found, as it usually in literature. Complications are rare, this is a public health issue whose solution lies in prevention. We are the only specialized center from Mali, therefore we are sometimes confronted to stuck and very old foreign bodies. In spite of that, no death were registered.