He ate an “aphrodisiac” duck egg and it got stuck in his cervical esophagus, above the trachea. So a 40-year-old man arrived in the emergency room on Saturday night in serious condition, in fact he was in danger of being strangled. To save his life were the doctors of the San Paolo hospital in Milan who operated on him urgently. The surgery had never been done before.
Called “Balut” – Filipino word meaning “wrapped” – duck egg is a typical Southeast Asian dish with hypothetical aphrodisiac properties. It is fertilized and boiled in the shell before hatching and can be eaten directly from the shell. The high temperature of the water calcified the embryo’s skeleton and got stuck in the cervical esophagus of the man who decided to try this dish on Saturday night.
The digestive endoscopy team of Asst Santi Paolo e Carlo directed by Luca De Luca “decided to intervene through the use of the surgical robot”, explained a note from the hospital. In fact, endoscopic removal would have been complex. The surgery was performed in collaboration with the robotic surgery team of the San Paolo hospital directed by Paolo Pietro Bianchi and the anesthesia and resuscitation team directed by Davide Chiumello. “An endoscopic fragmentation of the foreign body was performed under assisted guidance of the robot by pushing the egg into the gastric cavity and thus freeing the cervical esophagus”, it continues.
No incision was made during the operation and the patient was discharged after a few days of observation, in excellent health.
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