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Saturday, 5 January 2013
Dealing With Foreign Items Stuck In The Throat
It is a well known fact that children often swallow things. Children aged 6 months to 6 years are most often affected, but even adults sometimes end up with a foreign body stuck in their throats - and not only there. Peter Ambe, Dusseldorf University Hospital, and his coauthors review this clinical problem in this issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109(50): 869-75). Adults ingest foreign bodies mostly with their food. The most commonly swallowed objects are fish bones and chicken bones...
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