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Surprising find inside woman’s oesophagus just before her death

Doctors have made a surprising find in the oesophagus of a non–verbal woman not long before she died. The woman, from the US state of Ohio, was taken to the emergency room after a “choking episode with persistent coughing”, according to her case in The Journal of Emergency Medicine. It was noted she had “a history of mental retardation and dysphagia”. Dysphagia means issues with swallowing. “An X-ray study of the chest showed mild opacity at the left lung base and she was discharged… Source link

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