Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 20 No. (4), 1988.
Professional paper
The frequency of foreign bodies in the lower respiratory tract in the regoin of Slavonski Brod
Milan Marinković
Davorin Đanić
Draško Aničić
Mato Vukelić
Abstract
The frequency of foreign bodies in the lower respiratory tract was analyzed for the period 1961 —1987. In that period 81 persons aspirated foreign bodies into the lower respiratory tract. Two thirds of the cases were males, and 77.8 % were children up to the age of five. Vegetable foreign bodies were found in 81,5 % of cases, and 80,3 % of foreign bodies were extracted within the first 24 hours. Foreign bodies were localized in larynx in 8,6 % and in trachea in 24,7 % of cases. Multiple localizations were present in 13,6 % of cases. Foreign bodies were extracted by bronchoscopy in 79,7 % of cases and by tracheotomy and lower bronchoscopy in 20,3 %. Mortality rate during extraction was 1,3%, whereas 7 persons choked on the way to thehospital (8,6%). The annual incidence of foreign bodies in the lower respiratory tract is 0.02 %o and the mortality is 0.002 %o.
Keywords
lower respiratory tract; foreign bodies; the region of Slavonski Brod
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197343
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Publication date:
1.12.1988.
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