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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-5-16
pubmed:abstractText
A retrospective study was conducted of 97 patients with oesophageal foreign bodies (EFB). The patients were admitted to assess characteristics of EFB, modes of presentation and radiological and endoscopic findings. The patients were from the University Hospital of the West Indies and most (42%) were over the fourth decade of life. The commonest EFB were bones. A negative radiological finding was not a reliable means to select patients for endoscopy. Oesophagoscopy is a reliable method in the treatment of EFB impaction. There were no major complications or deaths.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0043-3144
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
47-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-3-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Oesophageal foreign bodies at the University Hospital of the West Indies.
pubmed:affiliation
Emergency Medicine Division, Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Tropical Medicine Research Institute The University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies. verz3us@yahoo.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article