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KMID : 0378019650080050093
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New Medical Journal
1965 Volume.8 No. 5 p.93 ~ p.96
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Statistical Survey of the Foreign Bodies in the Food and Air Passages
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ðáòâÐ¥/Cho, Chin Kyu
ì°ñ£ÓÂ/ÚÓÐÝí/ì°Ü¹âÜ/Ë©à¸ûà/ì°ÑÃòå/îïñýìé/Lee, Jong Dam/Park, Kum Za/Lee, Byung Sook/Kang, Suk Ho/Lee, Ki Chin/Chun, Ji Il
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Abstract
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The statistical observation was done on 130 cases with the foreign bodies in the food and air passages. who visited the Department of Otolaryngology, P.N.U.H. from 1958 to 1964.
The result obtained was as follows:
1. The incidence of foreign body was higher in order of metal, bone, nonmetal, meat, and vegetable. The most frequent varieties were coin and fish bone.
2. Age incidence was high in age group of under 10(60%) and the sex ratio was 2:1 showing 88 cases in the male and 48 cases in the female.
3. Relationship between the age and the varieties of the foreign body showed that 94% of metallic foreign bodies in esophagus were found in age group under 10 and most of fish bone cases were in age groups over 20 years old and most of foreign bodies in the air way were found in children without the variety differences of the foreign bodies.
4. The ratio between the esophageal foreign bodies and air way foreign bodies was 3.5:1.
The 66% of food passage foreign bodies were to the first ring of esophagus and 20% were in the second ring, and the side ratio of the bronchial foreign bodies was 10:2 showing higher incidence in the right bronchus.
5. Duration of the lodgement showed differences in relation with the varieties of the foreign bodies.
The 53% of bony foreign bodies were removed within 24 hours and most of them were removed within 4 days, meanwhile only 15% of coin cases were found within 24 hours and most of them were found after 4 days, and 20 % were over one week.
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