TY  - JOUR
T1  - THermometer as foreign body in esophagus
AU  - Schwartz VJ
Y1  - 1938/03/26
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1938.62790130003005b
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 953
EP  - 953
VL  - 110
IS  - 13
N2  - When it is recalled how common the practice is of leaving thermometers in the mouths of patients, including children and mental patients, it is indeed remarkable that these do not more frequently find their way into the esophagus or bronchi.M. A., a man aged 45, had bulbar paralysis. Like others with this affliction, he had great difficulty in swallowing voluntarily, although at times, owing to paralysis of the tongue and of the pharyngeal muscles, these patients are apt to inhale food and other particles into the larynx. In somewhat the same manner it can be understood how substances might slip from the pharynx into the esophagus. The nurse had left a thermometer in his mouth, and when she returned to check the temperature she found that it had disappeared. The patient was not of sound mentality and had a speech defect besides, but it appeared that he might have
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1938.62790130003005b
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1938.62790130003005b
ER  -