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Foreign Bodies Aspirated in Children: Role of Bronchoscopy

DOI

78

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0

References

2007

Year

Duilio Divisi, S. Di Tommaso, Margherita Garramone, William Di Francescantonio, Roberto Crisci, Adílson Vidal Costa, Giovanni Luca Gravina, Roberto Crisci
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Abstract

Fiber-optic bronchoscopy showed a diagnostic accuracy rate of 100 % but played a poor therapeutic role with a case resolution of 10.7 %. Rigid bronchoscopy was the main technique, permitting the removal of the tracheobronchial foreign body in 97.2 % of patients.