Very recently, some attempts have been made to start a systematic collection of foreign bodies (FB) in view of using them to characterize the risk of chocking in terms of size, shape and consistency of the FB. However, most of the epidemiologic evidence on foreign bodies in children comes from single-center retrospective studies, without any systematic geographical and temporal coverage. This paper is aimed at providing an estimate of the distribution of foreign body's injuries in children according to gender, age, type of FB, site of obstruction, clinical presentation, diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, complications, as emerging from a meta-analytic review of published papers.
Foltran, F., Ballali, S., Passali, F.m., Kern, E., Morra, B., Passali, G., et al. (2012). Foreign bodies in the airways: a meta-analysis of published papers. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY, 76 Suppl 1, S12-S12-9 [10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.02.004].
Foreign bodies in the airways: a meta-analysis of published papers
PASSALI, FRANCESCO MARIA;
2012-05-14
Abstract
Very recently, some attempts have been made to start a systematic collection of foreign bodies (FB) in view of using them to characterize the risk of chocking in terms of size, shape and consistency of the FB. However, most of the epidemiologic evidence on foreign bodies in children comes from single-center retrospective studies, without any systematic geographical and temporal coverage. This paper is aimed at providing an estimate of the distribution of foreign body's injuries in children according to gender, age, type of FB, site of obstruction, clinical presentation, diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, complications, as emerging from a meta-analytic review of published papers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
