The routine surgical procedure that ultimately took the life of Joan Rivers was the result of an unplanned biopsy on her vocal cords, according to The New York Daily News.
The procedure is one that should not be conducted outside of a hospital, according to medical experts who spoke with the New York Daily News. Rivers underwent the procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy in New York, which generally deals with digestive issues.
The
biopsy caused the “Fashion Police” star's vocal cords to seize, known
as laryngospasm. The medical source told the paper that had this
procedure been done in a hospital, Rivers may have survived. The source
further alleges that Rivers had only signed off on an endoscopy.
Representatives for Joan Rivers, as well as her daughter Melissa, did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment.
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