Insidious Threat of Children: Esophageal Foreign Body Ingestion

Objective: Foreign body ingestion commonly occurs in children. Objects that may not easily pass the esophagus cause severe complications, such as impaction, perforation, and obstruction. Different methods are used for their removal. We aimed retrospectively to analyze the cases in which we performed...

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Main Authors: Atalay Şahin, Fatih Meteroğlu, Ahmet Erbey, Ahmet Sızlanan, Refik Ülkü
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Yayinevi 2014-12-01
Series:Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access: http://eajem.galenos.com.tr/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/nsidious-threat-of-children-esophageal-foreign-bod/21929