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chrisdrudge | March 21, 2008Arora A, Arora M, Roffe C. Mystery of the missing denture: an unusual cause of respiratory arrest in a nonagenarian. Age Ageing. 2005 Sep;34(5):519-20.
A nonagenarian is someone between 90 and 100 years old. That's really old. Behold the power of swallowing a loose denture:
It got stuck in her hypopharynx, the part of the throat that connects to the esophagus.
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Samarasam I, Chandran S, Shukla V, Mathew G. A missing denture's misadventure! Dis Esophagus. 2006;19(1):53-5.
Ah, the tracheoesophageal fistula. Say goodbye to a sizable chunk of your esophagus!
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de Ruiter MH, van Damme PA,…