Large radiolucent tracheal foreign body found by CT scan caused dyspnea: An admonition on flexible fiberscopic foreign body removal

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 164-165

  Ikeda, M ^a   Kitahara, S ^a   Inouye, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT scan; Flexible fiberscope; Foreign body; Radiolucent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA;

EID: 0030073066     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00188364     Document Type: Article

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