Bally reports a somewhat
similar instance, in which, three months after ingestion, during
an attack of peripneumonia, a foreign body was extracted from an
abscess of the thorax, between the 2d and 3d ribs. Ambrose found
a needle encysted in the heart of a negress. She distinctly
stated that she had swallowed it at a time calculated to have
been nine years before her death. Planque speaks of a small bone
perforating the esophagus and extracted through the skin.
Abscess or ulceration, consequent upon periesophagitis, caused by
the lodgment of foreign bodies in the esophagus, often leads to
the most serious results. There is an instance of a soldier who
swallowed a bone while eating soup, who died on the thirty-first
day from the rupture internally of an esophageal abscess.
Grellois has reported the history of a case of a child twenty-two
months old, who suffered for some time with impaction of a small
bone in the esophagus. Less than three months afterward the
patient died with all the symptoms of marasmus, due to difficult
deglutition, and at the autopsy an abscess was seen in the
posterior wall of the pharynx, opposite the 3d cervical vertebra;
extensive caries was also noticed in the bodies of the 2d, 3d,
and 4th cervical vertebrae.
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