Inhaled foreign bodies in children.
We review a series of 115 children who attended the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne between 1979 and 1982 with the diagnosis of inhalation of a foreign body, or in whom a foreign body was found at bronchoscopy. Children between the ages of one and three years were the most commonly affected (75%) and boys outnumbered girls in the ratio 3:2. In 16% of cases the child did not present until more than one week after inhaling the foreign body. A peanut was the most common foreign body found (52% of cases), and it seems that many parents are still unaware that peanut ingestion can be hazardous in very young children.
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods; D010367:Arachis; D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014132:Trachea