The Neck Exploration of Penetrating Migratory Foreign Body (Crab Leg) Approaching the Right Carotid Sheath: A Rare Case From the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Foreign body ingestion is a problem that commonly presents in almost all otolaryngologic practices. However, less commonly do those foreign bodies perforate, migrate to, and impact the soft tissue of the neck while nearly invading the carotid sheath that accommodates the major neurovascular supply of the head. We report the case of a patient who had radiologic evidence of foreign body impaction and required neck exploration through an external approach to retrieve a crab leg embedded far within the deep cervical fascia.