title: Denture: an emergency department misadventure.
abstract: Delayed presentation of a laryngeal foreign body in an adult is unusual. Symptoms of minimal hoarseness with no signs of odynophagia, infection or difficulty in swallowing in a fit young patient endow no clues to suspect a swallowed denture in a busy emergency department and can be easily missed by a junior medical staff. In this report, we present a case of a broken partial denture plate stuck in the supraglottic region of an adult male patient diagnosed after 10 days despite initial presentation to the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery (ENT), Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex, England, UK. gautamtawari@gmail.com
authors.forename: Gautam J K
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Tawari
authors.forename: Sanjiv
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Zaid N
authors.initials: ZN
authors.lastname: Hirmiz
authors.forename: Arcot
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maheshwar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003778:Dentures; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006685:Hoarseness / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology*; D014132:Trachea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*