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Foreign Body Aspiration: Imaging Aspects

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Pediatric Chest Imaging

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Aspiration of foreign bodies into the respiratory tract can occur at any age, but is most common in young children and in the elderly population. Foreign body aspiration is the most frequent pediatric domestic accident, and has serious and sometimes fatal sequelae (Black et al. 1994; Fitzpatrick and Guarisco 1998; Bhana et al. 2000; Ciftci et al. 2003). Most cases occur under the age of 4 years (Mantel and Butenandt 1986; Esclamado and Richardson 1987; Piepsz 1988; Schmidt et al. 2000; Oguz et al. 2000; Lima and Fischer 2002). When the history of a foreign body aspiration is definite, bronchoscopy is the modality of choice for both diagnosis and management. Until recently, rigid or flexible bronchoscopy was used for diagnosis, while removal of foreign bodies was carried out by rigid bronchoscopy only (Friedman 2000; Lima and Fischer 2002; Ayed et al. 2003; Ciftci et al. 2003). With the advance of technology, removal of foreign bodies can now be done by flexible bronchoscopy, which is a shorter and safer procedure (Swanson and Edell 2001).

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Koplewitz, B.Z., Bar-Ziv, J. (2008). Foreign Body Aspiration: Imaging Aspects. In: Lucaya, J., Strife, J.L. (eds) Pediatric Chest Imaging. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32676-2_9

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