TY - JOUR
T1 - Martini Toothpick Warning
AU - Malamud, Daniel
AU - Murphy, Mary Harlan
PY - 1986/10/16
Y1 - 1986/10/16
N2 - To the Editor: We are writing to call attention to a new and potentially serious hazard associated with the hasty ingestion of martinis (or indeed Gibsons, as in the present case). One of us was partaking of a Gibson (gin, ice, essence of vermouth, and several cocktail onions speared on a flat wooden toothpick). As the beverage and onions were quickly consumed, the toothpick floated from the glass into the oral cavity and lodged, uncomfortably, in the posterior pharynx. An attempt to dislodge it by regurgitation resulted in transferring it up into the posterior nares, pointed end first. A trip….
AB - To the Editor: We are writing to call attention to a new and potentially serious hazard associated with the hasty ingestion of martinis (or indeed Gibsons, as in the present case). One of us was partaking of a Gibson (gin, ice, essence of vermouth, and several cocktail onions speared on a flat wooden toothpick). As the beverage and onions were quickly consumed, the toothpick floated from the glass into the oral cavity and lodged, uncomfortably, in the posterior pharynx. An attempt to dislodge it by regurgitation resulted in transferring it up into the posterior nares, pointed end first. A trip….
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198610163151619
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198610163151619
M3 - Letter
C2 - 3762614
AN - SCOPUS:0023051433
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 315
SP - 1031
EP - 1032
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 16
ER -