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KMID : 0361019860290060848
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Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
1986 Volume.29 No. 6 p.848 ~ p.858
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A Statistical Analysis of foreing Bodies in Otolaryngological Field
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박순재/Park, Soon Jae
이병돈/박자룡/최혜석/장혁순/강주원/Lee, Byung Don/Park, Ja Ryong/Choi, Hei Sock/Chang, Hyuk Soon/Kang, Ju Won
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Abstract
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Statistical analysis of 202 foreign bodies in the esophagus, air passage, external auditory canals, nasal cavities, oral cavity and pharynx which were encountered in the Department of Otoloaryngology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital from
March 1979 to Oct. 1985 was presented.
1) Distribution of location was 84 cases ( 65.5%) in the esophagus, 42 cases (20.8%) in the oral cavity and pharynx, 33 cases(16.3%) in the external auditory canals, 30 cases (14.9%) in the nasal cavities and 13 cases (6.4%) in the air passages.
2) Coins were the most frequent foreign bodies in the esophagus (65.5%). Beans and peanuts were the most frequent foreign bodies in the air passages (53.8%). In the external auditory canals, insects (72.7%), in the nasal cavities, beans (16.7 %), in the oral cavity and pharynx, fish bones(97.7%) were the mort frequent foreign bodies.
3) In the age incidence, most of the patients in the esophagus, air passage and nasal cavities were children under the age of five. But in the oral cavity and pharynx, 71.3% of foreign bodies were over 20 years age.
4) In sex distribution, males were prevalent.
5) The most prevalent site of lodgement in the esophagus was the first narrowing( 83.3%) . In air passage, bronchial foreign bodies were more common and the left bronchus was the more frequent site( 69.2%x)
In the external auditory canals and nasal cavities, right side was more common and foreign bodies in the oral cavity and pharynx were mostly found at the palatine tonsils.
6) In duration of lodgement, 82.1% of esophageal foreign bodies were removed
within one day and, 61.6% of foreign bodies in air passage were removed within 3 days.
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