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Case Reports
. 1993;7(12):661-2.
doi: 10.1016/1010-7940(93)90265-d.

Late onset tracheo-oesophageal fistula following a swallowed dental plate

P B Rajesh  1 , J J Goiti
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Late onset tracheo-oesophageal fistula following a swallowed dental plate

P B Rajesh et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1993.

Abstract

Swallowing dentures and dental plates has been a cause of distress among elderly patients. Tracheo-oesophageal fistula caused by a foreign body is rare and of the cases reported in the literature only one was due to a swallowed denture which resulted in a recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy [4]. We describe a delayed onset tracheo-oesophageal fistula due to a swallowed dental plate in a young patient.

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