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Case Reports

An Unusual Case of a Swallowed Thermometer Perforated in the Mediastinum

^a Second Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases "Sotiria," Athens, Greece
^b First Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases "Sotiria," Athens, Greece

Accepted for publication July 10, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Potaris, Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital for Chest Diseases, 152 Mesogion Ave, Athens, 115 27, Greece (Email: konstantinospotaris{at}yahoo.com).

A 39-year-old woman, who was addicted to drugs, was admitted because of referred chest pain and dysphagia after deliberate ingestion of a thermometer in a suicide attempt 6 hours earlier. Rigid esophagoscopy was unrevealing. On awakening, the patient confessed that the thermometer had been swallowed more than a month be operated on and get narcotic pain medications. Her history disclosed multiple admissions and laparotomies after suicide attempts with swallowed thermometers in the last 3 years.