Abstract:Background Foreign body ingestion in children is a clinically important
reason for presentation to the emergency department. The individual outcome
ranges from benign spontaneous courses to severe complications. Fatal outcomes
occur rarely and complications are related to patient’s age as well as
type and location of the foreign body. The aim of our present study was to
evaluate the outcome of children and adole… Show more
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