Clinical experiences of removing foreign bodies in the airway and esophagus with a rigid endoscope: A series of 3217 cases from 1970 to 1996

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 450-454

  Hsu, Wei Chung ^a   Sheen, Tzung Shiahn ^a   Lin, Chia Der ^a   Tan, Ching Ting ^a   Yeh, te Huei ^a   Lee, Shiann Yann ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BONE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PEANUT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034016680     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2000.98321     Document Type: Article

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