An autopsy case of prolonged asphyxial death caused by the impacted denture in the esophagus

作者：Funayama Kazuhisa; Fujihara Junko; Takeshita Haruo; Takatsuka Hisakazu

来源：Legal Medicine, 2016, 23: 95-98.

DOI：10.1016/j.legalmed.2016.10.006

• Prolonged asphyxia
• Foreign body impaction
• Denture
• Esophagus
• Misdiagnosis
• Autopsy

A foreign body impacted in the esophagus is not a rare incident among adults or children. In adults, a dental prosthesis is prone to become impacted in the esophagus. The diagnostic difficulty of this often causes a delay in its removal, which can lead to serious complications, including death.
This report describes the autopsy case of a man who died of prolonged asphyxiation induced by the delayed removal of an impacted denture, which was misdiagnosed on his first visit notwithstanding that a part of the denture could be seen on X-rays. Cases in which an impacted denture led to death have rarely been reported in contrast to numerous papers about recovered cases.

• 出版日期2016-11