Lung recovery after rigid bronchoscopic removal of tracheobronchial foreign bodies in children

Foreign body aspiration in children: The value of diagnostic criteria

“…Plain chest X-ray is the main investigative tool in FBA. In the literature, the rates of unilateral or localized hyperlucency, localized atelectasis and pneumonia in patients with FBA are found to be 17.1-63%, .9% and 0-20.2%, respectively [1,5,8,9,11,20,21]. In our series these values were 63.8%, 8% and 4.3%, respectively.…”

“…The positive CH rate was 86.5% in all suspected FBA patients in our series. This rate varies between 64% and 90% in the literature [8,15,[20][21][22][23]. The sensitivity and specificity of this parameter in our patients were 90.5% and 24.1%, respectively.…”

“…The positive bronchoscopy rate is 71.8% in our series. Although not very high, it is an acceptable rate when compared with other large series in the literature (57-96.3%) [5,7,10,12,[14][15][16]19,[20][21][22][23]. We consider it better to perform some negative bronchoscopies rather than to leave a FB in the bronchial tree.…”

Factors predicting early diagnosis of pediatric laryngotracheobronchial foreign bodies.

“…Therefore, long-term pulmonary care is required for this group of patients 21 . According to Roh et al 12 delayed lung recovery after rigid bronchoscopic removal of tracheobronchial FBs can be predicted by FB-induced inflammatory…”

Clinico-radiological parameters predicting early diagnosis of foreign body aspiration in children

“…An unnoticed FB aspiration and initial nonspecific symptoms may contribute to late diagnosis. [10][11][12][13] Apart from a positive history of aspiration, the next most common symptom in our study was cough (83.8%) followed by respiratory distress (78.4%). In other studies cough was reported in varying proportions of patients (77%, 82.5%, 30.5%, 100%).…”