Peroral endoscopy and laryngeal surgery . A foreign body lodged in the esophagus may provequickly or slowly fatal or may remain for many years if its size, shapeand position permit food to pass. E. A. Peters reports the case of aman dying two hours after a tracheotomy done for edema of the glottis,secondary to hemorrhage down along the spine, from the ]iuncture of thejugular vein by a pin swallowed with food. Adelman cites nine casesand Chiari twenty-one cases of perforation of the aorta by foreign bodiesin the esophagus. The perforation may be shortly after the lodgment. IdUKIGN UODIES KN THE
Peroral endoscopy and laryngeal surgery . A foreign body lodged in the esophagus may provequickly or slowly fatal or may remain for many years if its size, shapeand position permit food to pass. E. A. Peters reports the case of aman dying two hours after a tracheotomy done for edema of the glottis,secondary to hemorrhage down along the spine, from the ]iuncture of thejugular vein by a pin swallowed with food. Adelman cites nine casesand Chiari twenty-one cases of perforation of the aorta by foreign bodiesin the esophagus. The perforation may be shortly after the lodgment. IdUKIGN UODIES KN THE (jr>HAGUS. 333 in the case of sharp bo<Hes, such as pins, needles and sharp bones; ormore slowly by erosion and ulceration. Many cases of foreign bodies inthe esophagus have been quickly fatal through perforation and septicmediastinitis. Many others have caused death through suppuration ex-tending to the trachea with consetiuent edema and asphyxia. In casesof [irolonged sojourn of the foreign body in the esophagus thickening. Fir,. 205.—kadionrapli ol forcis^n body (cuff link) part oi which had ulceratedthrough from the esophagus into the trachea of a three months old infant. Re-moved partly by oral lironchoscopy and partly by oral esophagoscopy witlunu anes-thesia, general or local. (.Authors case). ;nid of the esophageal wall result from natures effort to])rotect the surrounding tissues. Sooner or later, however, if not re-moved, the foreign body causes death. livery large museum has speci-mens of this kind, .nid ibc mcjst fre(|uentl\ seen foreign body is theartificial denture. The foregoing remarks, iiowever, api)ly cliicHyto the i)re-csoi)hagoscoi)ic days. To-day, with the radiograph and the 334 FOREIGN BODIES IN THE ESOPHAGUS. esopliagoscope, foreign bodies are discovered and promptly D. Braden Kyle reports a very remarkable case in which he ver\skillfully removed an artificial denture that had been in the esophagus forseventeen years
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