Foreign bodies in the upper aero-digestive tract

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-120

  Murty, P S N ^a   Ingle, Vijendra S ^a   Ramakrishna, S ^a   Shah, Fahim A ^a   Philip, Varghese ^a  

^a Ibri Regional Referral Hospital   (Oman)

Author keywords

Aero digestive tract; Bronchoscopy; Foreign body; Oesophagoscopy; Oman

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247588848     PISSN: 2075051X     EISSN: 20750528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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