A Reclusive Foreign Body in the Airway: A Case Report and a Literature Review

A foreign body in the larynx is an airway emergency that requires urgent evaluation and treatment. Irregular foreign bodies tend to orient in a sagittal plane and may produce only partial obstruction, allowing adequate air movement, hence making them undetectable for a long period of time. We report...

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Autores principales: Philip, Ajay, Rajan Sundaresan, V., George, Philip, Dash, Satyabrata, Thomas, Regi, Job, Anand, Anand, V. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24312739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/347325
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author Philip, Ajay
Rajan Sundaresan, V.
George, Philip
Dash, Satyabrata
Thomas, Regi
Job, Anand
Anand, V. K.
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description A foreign body in the larynx is an airway emergency that requires urgent evaluation and treatment. Irregular foreign bodies tend to orient in a sagittal plane and may produce only partial obstruction, allowing adequate air movement, hence making them undetectable for a long period of time. We report a case of a laryngotracheal foreign body that remained reclusive for 9 years.
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spelling pubmed-38388362013-12-05 A Reclusive Foreign Body in the Airway: A Case Report and a Literature Review Philip, Ajay Rajan Sundaresan, V. George, Philip Dash, Satyabrata Thomas, Regi Job, Anand Anand, V. K. Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report A foreign body in the larynx is an airway emergency that requires urgent evaluation and treatment. Irregular foreign bodies tend to orient in a sagittal plane and may produce only partial obstruction, allowing adequate air movement, hence making them undetectable for a long period of time. We report a case of a laryngotracheal foreign body that remained reclusive for 9 years. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3838836/ /pubmed/24312739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/347325 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ajay Philip et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Reclusive Foreign Body in the Airway: A Case Report and a Literature Review
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