He was a young and fit pro athlete, but he came dangerously close to death when he accidentally swallowed a rather commonplace item: a toothpick. The seemingly mundane toothpick wreaked havoc inside ...

Ingested toothpicks have often been reported as the cause of gastrointestinal injuries, 1 and in one case a toothpick migrated into the pericardium, resulting in constrictive pericarditis. 2 We report ...

An 18-year-old pro athlete almost died after unknowingly swallowing a whole toothpick. He had no knowledge of swallowing anything unusual, which made his abdominal pain difficult to diagnose. After ...

Sherwood Anderson, one of our most respected and well-known American writers, died unexpectedly in 1941 a week after drinking several martinis. The most likely explanation is that he inadvertently ...