Delayed diagnosis of foreign body aspiration in children

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 100-101

  Hilliard, Tom ^a   Sim, Richard ^a   Saunders, Mike ^a   Hewer, Simon Langton ^a   Henderson, John ^a  

^a Royal Hospital for Children   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHICKEN; CHILD; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOOD; FOREIGN BODY; FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEBULIZATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PISTACHIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STRIDOR; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

EID: 0037258523     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.1.100     Document Type: Article

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