Management of foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree in adults: a 10-year experience

Objective: To report our experience of foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree in adults. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Teaching hospital, Athens. Subjects: 25 patients referred to the department of thoracic surgery for treatment. Interventions: Bronchoscopic extraction in 16, thoracotom...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The European journal of surgery 2000-12, Vol.166 (12), p.920-923
Hauptverfasser:	Athanassiadi, Kalliopi, Kalavrouziotis, Georgios, Lepenos, Vassilios, Hatzimichalis, Antonios, Loutsidis, Antonios, Bellenis, Ion
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Biological and medical sciences Bronchi Female Foreign Bodies - surgery Humans Injuries of the thorax. Foreign bodies. Diseases due to physical agents Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Retrospective Studies Thoracotomy Trachea Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
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Zusammenfassung:	Objective: To report our experience of foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree in adults. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Teaching hospital, Athens. Subjects: 25 patients referred to the department of thoracic surgery for treatment. Interventions: Bronchoscopic extraction in 16, thoracotomy with bronchotomy in 5, and resection in 4. Results: No major complications and no deaths. Conclusion: Bronchoscopic extraction is usually possible, but thoracotomy and bronchotomy or resection may be necessary. Copyright © 2000 Taylor and Francis Ltd.
ISSN:	1102-4151 1741-9271
DOI:	10.1080/110241500447056