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Sudden death resulting from chicken bone perforation of the esophagus |
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| Authors: | S S Russo M L Taff O Ratanaproeksa W U Spitz |
| Abstract: | Sudden death caused by foreign-body perforation of the esophagus is distinctly uncommon. We report the death of an elderly patient in a nursing home who exsanguinated after she swallowed a chicken bone that perforated her esophagus and right common carotid artery. |
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