The necropsy revealed a penetration of the aorta through the thoracic portion of the esophagus.
There is also in the Musee Dupuytren a preparation described by Bousquet, in which the aorta and the esophagus were perforated by a very irregular piece of bone.

Mackenzie mentions an instance of death from perforation of the aorta by a fish-bone.
In some cases penetration of the esophagus allows the further penetration of some neighboring membrane or organ in the same manner as the foregoing cases.

Dudley mentions a case in which fatal hemorrhage was caused by penetration of the esophagus and lung by a chicken-bone.
Buist speaks of a patient who swallowed two artificial teeth.

On the following day there was pain in the epigastrium, and by the fourth day the pain extended to the vertebrae, with vomiting, delirium, and death on the fifth day.

At the autopsy it was found that a foreign body, seven cm.