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Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1990; 1(2):117-122

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1990.1.2.117

원저

기도이물에 대한 임상적 고찰

박래성1, 이인자1, 장기홍1, 여상원1, 김병우1
A Clinical Study for Airway Foreign Bodies
Rae Sung Park1, In Ja Lee1, Ki Hong Chang1, Sang Won Yeo1, Byung Woo Kim1
1카톨릭의과대학 이비인후과학교실
1Department of Otolaryngology, Catholic University Medical College

© Copyright 1990 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

We analysed 31 cases of bronchial foreign body patients who visited ENT department, Catholic Medical Center from January 1984 to December 1989.

The results were as follow

  1. Among 31 cases, males were 24 and females were 7, and 21 of the total patients were under the age of 2 years (67.7%).

  2. The locations of foreign bodies were left main bronchus in 19 cases, right main bronchus in 14 cases and bilateral in only 1 case.

  3. The kinds of foreign bodies were plants such as peanuts or nuts in 21 cases (67.7%) and metals in 3 cases (9.7%).

  4. In duration of lodgement, it was within 24 hours in 9 cases, over 4 days in 15 cases and over 3 months in 1 case.

  5. In mode of treatment, there were bronchoscopic removal in 28 cases, lobectomy in 1 case and spontaneous removal by coughing in 2 cases.

  6. In complications，there were 7 cases of pneumonia and 2 cases of laryngeal edema, but one case died because of pulmonary edema after bronchoscopy.