A Lodged Barramundi Fish-Bone Stabbing the Piriform Fossa in a Child
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Abstract
Unintentional ingestion of a fish bone is common in children, especially among families with high consumption of seafood. Complications in children are extremely rare. We describe a 3-year-old healthy boy who had a large bone of Barramundi fish lodged in his upper esophagus causing significant distress. Soft tissue neck radiograph revealed a mildly thickened epiglottis and bulbous and hypertrophied adenoid soft tissue. A 21-mm foreign body was noticed. A flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy revealed a large fish bone emerging from the left piriform fossa and arcing over the left arytenoid to hover over the posterior glottis. The bone was removed during anesthesia induction before a rigid esophagoscopy. The fish-bone entry point was seen stabbing through the edge of the piriform fossa and running down alongside the esophagus, without causing a through and through perforation. Fish bone ingestion can cause significant complications including perforation of the esophagus. Early suspicion of ingestion, radiological investigation, and swift management are important to ensure reduced complication rate in children.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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