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KMID : 0602819950010010164
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Korean Journal of Bronchoesophagology
1995 Volume.1 No. 1 p.164 ~ p.167
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A Case of Hypopharyngeal Foreign Body Persisted for More Than 1 Month
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Abstract
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Foreign bolies in the upper aerodigestive tract are an important cause of morbity and
mortality in older adults and children under 3 years of age. Fish and chicken bones are the
usual foreign bodies lodged in the hypopharynx, and most of them lodge in the lower pole of
a tonsil, at the base of the tongur, at the lateral wall of the pharynx, or in a vallecula.
Recently, the authors experienced a case of aspiration pneumonia caused bychronic local
inflammatory reaction of the posterior wall of the hypopharynx originated from a special
foreign body.
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