The toothbrush: A rare but potentially life-threatening cause of penetrating oropharyngeal trauma in children

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Sasaki, Toru ^a,b   Toriumi, Sayaka ^a   Asakage, Takahiro ^a   Kaga, Kimitaka ^a   Yamaguchi, Daisuke ^a   Yahagi, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign body; Pharyngeal injury; Toothbrush; Vagal syncope

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; MOUTH EXAMINATION; ORAL BLEEDING; OROPHARYNX; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TOOTHBRUSH; WOUND; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; INJURY; PATHOLOGY; TOOTH BRUSHING;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; OROPHARYNX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTHBRUSHING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33750114755     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0779     Document Type: Article

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