Two cases of 10-month-old infants with airway obstruction (chicken bone) in Samoa: Surgical/management challenges and future directions

We present the case of two 10-month old infants in Samoa who required surgical intervention for the removal of an ingested foreign body (chicken bone) in the trachea. Although such cases are usually medically evacuated to New Zealand, this was not possible for these patients due to travel restrictio...

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Main Authors: Sione Pifeleti, Penaia A. Faumuina, Lamour Hansell, Corleone Vaai, Annette Kaspar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Otolaryngology Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468548821000382