Citation

Rogers C, Chang B, Shibuya R. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1994; 15(1): 91-92.

Affiliation

Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, California.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8166124

Abstract

A 69-year-old Chinese woman with widely metastatic endometrial carcinoma was found at autopsy to have a quarter in her air passages. Inquiry showed that her family had placed the coin in her mouth at the time of death according to traditional Chinese funeral practices. This practice is apparently not widely known among forensic pathologists.

Language: en