[Foreign bodies in the upper airways of children - problems relating to diagnosis and treatment].
The authors share their experience and systematic observations with regard to the correlation between "chronic pneumonia" and foreign bodies in the respiratory tract, based on a survey of 480 bronchoscopic examinations for a period of 10 years. It was established that misdiagnosed foreign bodies in the lower respiratory tract account for 12.5% of all these cases. The percentage of undiagnosed bilateral foreign bodies is unusually high, as well as that of the left-sided foreign bodies, although to a smaller degree. The study also shows that very often in pediatric practice foreign bodies are wrongly diagnosed as bronchopneumonia and bronchial asthma.
Tsolov
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Ts
Medical University, Department of ENT Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Melnicharov
M
M
Perinovska
P
P
Krutilin
F
F
D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001996:Bronchopneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D012137:Respiratory System; D012189:Retrospective Studies
Chuzhdi tela v dikhatelnite p'tishta pri detsata - diagnostichni i terapevtichni problemi.