Child Swallows Mickey Mouse – The Mickey Mouse Sign

Child Swallows Mickey Mouse – The Mickey Mouse Sign

History: Parent concerned child swallowed a “foreign body.” This is what I’ve termed a “pseudo-Mickey Mouse sign,” as there are many other real Mickey Mouse signs in radiology. For example, anencephaly (see below), progressive supranuclear palsy, outward flair of the iliac wings in Down Syndrome, radiotracer uptake in the pedicles on bone scan for Paget’s…

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January 20, 2014

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History: Parent concerned child swallowed a “foreign body.”

Frontal radiograph of the chest demonstrating a Mickey Mouse shaped key ring in the mid thoracic esophagus. See Mickey Mouse photo for comparison. Case from www.radpod.org

This is what I’ve termed a “pseudo-Mickey Mouse sign,” as there are many other real Mickey Mouse signs in radiology. For example, anencephaly (see below), progressive supranuclear palsy, outward flair of the iliac wings in Down Syndrome, radiotracer uptake in the pedicles on bone scan for Paget’s disease (see below).