긴 인공식도관 ( 길이 13cm ) 의 자연배출

Of all the many types of foreign bodies which may enter the upper gastrointestinal tract, some may cause serious complication while they are spontaneously passed. But objects longer than 10.0 cm and thicker than 2.0 cm tend to lodge in the stomach, duodenojejunal flexure, ileocecal valve and anus. We experienced a case of spontaneously passed long esophageal stent (13.0 * 2.5 cm in size), which was inserted because of lower esophageal stricture by extension from cardiac cancer of the stomach, after chemotherapy. So, we report this case with the review of the literature.