A coin in the airway.
A 69-year-old Chinese woman with widely metastatic endometrial carcinoma was found at autopsy to have a quarter in her air passages. Inquiry showed that her family had placed the coin in her mouth at the time of death according to traditional Chinese funeral practices. This practice is apparently not widely known among forensic pathologists.
Rogers
C
C
Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, California.
Chang
B
B
Shibuya
R
R
D000368:Aged; D001213:Asian; D001237:Asphyxia; D001344:Autopsy; D002423:Cause of Death; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005655:Funeral Rites; D006801:Humans