Axial CT with contrast of the chest shows a linear crescent-shaped calcification just to the left of the trachea which appears to join the main pulmonary artery to the descending aorta. An outside institution misinterpreted this calcification as a fish bone perforating out of the esophagus and transferred the patient emergently to our institution.
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