@article{ref1,
title="An unusual case of a swallowed thermometer perforated in the mediastinum",
journal="Annals of thoracic surgery",
year="2008",
author="Sakellaridis, Timothy and Potaris, Konstantinos and Mallios, Dimitrios and Sepsas, Evangellos",
volume="85",
number="1",
pages="339-341",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-4975",
doi="10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.027",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.027"
}