This is a case report of a 92-year-old woman, suffering from dysphagia and retrosternal
pain, caused by an oesophageal foreign body that was found during an endoscopic
examination. Few days after unsuccessful attempts of removing the woman suddenly died.
We present the anatomical and histopathological study of the anatomical part, preceded
by Computed Tomography images acquisition. All data substantiate a fistula development
between oesophagus and pulmonary artery caused by a foreign body (during the postmortem
examination we found out it was a chicken bone).
The presentation of this extraordinary event wants to point out that high definition
radiodiagnostic techniques have key role as an essential preparatory aid to face peculiar
problems of forensic pathology and can be extremely useful to lead a much more targeted
macroscopic examination and histological verification.