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  • Title: Foreign body in the airways of children.
    Author: Kero P, Puhakka H, Erkinjuntti M, Iisalo E, Vilkki P.
    Journal: Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol; 1983 Sep; 6(1):51-9. PubMed ID: 6668105.
    Abstract:
    During the years 1969-1981 57 children with inhaled foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree were treated at Turku University Hospital. Of the patients 91% had a history of foreign body inhalation and 25% had a radiopaque foreign body which was seen in the X-ray of the chest. In 9% of 57 patients a foreign body was found unexpectedly at bronchoscopy. The foreign body was removed by bronchoscopy from all the patients but one, who required a segmentectomy due to a fragment of a spike in the lung parenchyma. The patients presented no major complications, and they were all discharged from the hospital in good condition.
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