An unusual case of a swallowed thermometer perforated in the mediastinum.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 39-year-old woman, who was addicted to drugs, was admitted because of referred chest pain and dysphagia after deliberate ingestion of a thermometer in a suicide attempt 6 hours earlier. Rigid esophagoscopy was unrevealing. On awakening, the patient confessed that the thermometer had been swallowed more than a month be operated on and get narcotic pain medications. Her history disclosed multiple admissions and laparotomies after suicide attempts with swallowed thermometers in the last 3 years.
Medical subject headings
- Deglutition
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Mediastinum
- Suicide, Attempted
- Thermometers