A foreign body usually gets arrested in which pa of esophagus?: (A) Cardiac pa of the esophagus, (B) In the middle third of the esophagus, (C) Below the cricopharynx, (D) Above the cricopharynx
Answer is D. The first constriction where the esophagus commences is at the cricopharyngeal sphincter: this is the narrowest poion of the esophagus and is the most common site of foreign body