Images in Clinical Medicine

Unfortunate Ingestion

M.C. Ruiz, M.D., and J. Soler-Gonzalez, M.D.

N Engl J Med 2005; 353:2270November 24, 2005

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A 37-year-old woman had an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of self-induced vomiting. She presented after accidentally swallowing a kitchen fork while attempting to induce emesis. Radiographs of the thorax show the location reached by the fork. The fork was surgically removed, and the patient had a good recovery.

M.C. Ruiz, M.D.
J. Soler-Gonzalez, M.D.
Centre de Salud Rambla de Ferran, Lleida 25007, Spain