We hope that someone will ask Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, Ig Nobel medicine prize-winning co-authors of the study “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects“, for their take on this case report newly published in the New England Journal of Medicine: “Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife,” Aida Venado, and Sarah Prebil, N Engl J Med 2012; […]
Tag: Swallow
When something inside you is crushed like a nut
The pressure in the esophagus (the tube connecting the mouth and stomach) can become abnormally very high. Because of this high pressure an analogy was drawn between the esophageal pressure and the pressure generated by a nutcracker giving the term – nutcracker esophagus: R Fass, R Dickman. Nutcracker Esophagus-A Nut Hard to Swallow. Journal of […]
Write Ho! The Long-Lost, Ingested Pen Turns Up
Medicine and literary production combine in a fairly unusual way in this study: “An incidental finding of a gastric foreign body 25 years after ingestion,” Oliver Richard Waters, Tawfique Daneshmend, Tarek Shirazi, BMJ Case Reports, 2011. The authors, at Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK, report: A 76-year-old female, with a blameless […]
A slip of the pen (followed by 25 years of writer’s blockage)
A pen in the wrong hands can be dangerous. This medical case report shows one specific danger (and also demonstrates the fine quality of pen manufacturing 25 years ago): “An incidental finding of a gastric foreign body 25 years after ingestion,” Oliver Richard Waters, Tawfique Daneshmend, Tarek Shirazi, BMJ Case Reports 2011. The authors, at […]
