Citation

Sakellaridis T, Potaris K, Mallios D, Sepsas E. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2008; 85(1): 339-341.

Affiliation

Second Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases Sotiria, Athens, Greece.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.027

PMID

18154845

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.

Language: en