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The diagnosis of foreign body aspiration in childhood.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery 1984 October
A 10-year experience with the treatment of 157 children for foreign body aspiration is reviewed. The object of the review is to examine diagnostic accuracy and to differentiate between the clinical features of patients diagnosed early (within 24 hours) and late (beyond 24 hours) following the onset of symptoms. Diagnostic accuracy was found to be high. In 83.5% of patients the combination of clinical and radiologic signs correctly disclosed the site of foreign bodies within the tracheobronchial tree. In 80% of patients there was a history of witnessed choking, however, only 46% were diagnosed early. The diagnostic triad of wheezing, coughing, and decreased breath sounds was more common in late diagnoses (47%) than in early diagnoses (31%). The triad was incomplete in 61% of all patients. Radiologic findings were normal in one third of the patients diagnosed early and revealed atelectasis or consolidation in one half of those diagnosed late. With early diagnosis endobronchial inflammation was absent in 56% of patients compared with severe inflammation in 36% of late diagnoses. Right-side foreign bodies were more common (56%) and were diagnosed early 50% of the time compared with left-side foreign bodies which were diagnosed early only 35% of the time. Two thirds of tracheal and bilateral foreign bodies were diagnosed early compared with only one third of peripheral foreign bodies. This review indicates that most children with foreign body aspiration were diagnosed accurately. Although diagnoses can be made early; more than half of the patients were diagnosed late when there was evidence of significant airway obstruction.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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