Background: Foreign body ingestion is a common clinical problem in ENT department. Nowadays, flexible endoscopy system is not only for diagnosis but also for management. Objective: Evaluating the outcome of using the flexible endoscopy system in management foreign body ingestion in Hue. Results: The analysis included 41 patients of which 53.7 percent were male an 46.3 percent were female. The mean age of the group was 48.05 + or - 19.4 years (range 14 years - 86 years). Esophaggastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed in 100 percent of cases and the rate was successful 95.1 percent, 4.9 percent of cases can not extraction were managed successful by rigid endoscopic system. There were no severe complications. Conclusion: Using the flexible endoscopic system to remove foreign body ingestion could be safely method with low cost, have a good result as "a first choice" in clinical practice.
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