Foreign body in the airways of children.
During the years 1969-1981 57 children with inhaled foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree were treated at Turku University Hospital. Of the patients 91% had a history of foreign body inhalation and 25% had a radiopaque foreign body which was seen in the X-ray of the chest. In 9% of 57 patients a foreign body was found unexpectedly at bronchoscopy. The foreign body was removed by bronchoscopy from all the patients but one, who required a segmentectomy due to a fragment of a spike in the lung parenchyma. The patients presented no major complications, and they were all discharged from the hospital in good condition.
D000293:Adolescent; D001980:Bronchi; D001995:Bronchography; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D014132:Trachea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging