Foreign bodies in children: a comparison between Argentina and Europe

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Alberto ChinskiLuisa Bellussi

Abstract

Foreign bodies (FB) aspiration, ingestion, insertion or inhalation can be a serious occurrence, resulting in fatality if not promptly recognized and solved. The aim of the current paper is to present foreign body ingestion's cases observed at the Children's Hospital Gutierrez in Buenos Aires in 5 years of ORL activity and to compare main findings with data coming from other well known already published case series. A prospective study was realized on children having ingested, inhaled, aspirated or introduced FBs, with regard to age and sex distribution, FB's type, dimensions and consistency, FB's location, clinical presentation, removal and occurrence of complications. FBs retrieved amounted to 2336 cases. The most common location was the nose (66.7%), where the most frequent FBs retrieved were inorganic (72.7%) and occurred in children younger than 3 years old (54.2%), the only position where children younger than 3 years are a majority in respect to the older ones. The presence of the adult was seen in the preponderance of cases (88.4%). Symptoms varied between the different anatomical systems, with cough as predominant when concerning aspiration, local pain or inflammation in inhalation and insertion, and vomiting in for the...Continue Reading

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