title: [Foreign bodies in the esophagus].
abstract: 1496 patients with foreign bodies of esophagus, reported between 1945-1997 to ENT Department of K. Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, were analysed. The age ranged from 0.5 to 95 years, but the most numerous group was under 5 years of age. Men outnumber women. Very detailed anamnesis, oropharynx and hypopharynx examination, neck palpation, chest X-ray were crucial for diagnosis. More than 50% of patients reported within first 10 hours after foreign body wedged. The most often met foreign bodies were: bones, coins, denture, fish bones, fruit-stones, buttons. The most dangerous were supposed to be: needles, pieces of glass, springing anchores, safety razors. Foreign bodies were removed by means of rigid esophagoscopes. In 75.3% foreign bodies occupied the first isthmus. Serious complications met in the analysed material, included: esophageal wall perforation [27], mediastinitis [21], aortal hemorrhage [3], esophagus-tracheal fistula [1]. Intramural abscesses, posteriol pharyngeal wall abscesses were found more often. 98% of esophageal foreign bodies were removed by the same route they had been introduced.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Otolaryngologii Katedry Chorób Ucha, Nosa, Gardła i Krtani AM im. K. Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kruk-Zagajewska
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szmeja
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wójtowicz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wierzbicka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Piatkowski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution