[Esophageal foreign bodies at the Universitary Hospital in Dakar]. / Les corps etrangers de l' oesophage au CHU de Dakar.

The diagnosis and the management of the foreign bodies of the oesophagus in the children have benefited from the digestive endoscopy and the anaesthesia progresses the last ten years. A 120 files review concerning children who suffered from foreign bodies of the oesophagus is reported. The average age was 4 years. The sex repartition showed that the boys where prevailing (62 %). The interrogation revealed a caustic old stenosis of the oesophagus among 4 children. In 91% of cases, the diagnosis was obvious on the X-ray prints. The endoscopy assessment found 124 foreign bodies mostly represented by coins (81,4 %). We recorded 2 oesophagus perforation cases and to deaths. The foreign body of the oesophagus is not always harmless. It can determine complications often revealing ones. It seems necessary to us to stress the prevention of that accident by a vast sensitising compaign of the parents.