Research Article
Do Times until Treatment for Foreign Body Aspiration Relate to Complications?
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of patients with foreign body aspiration (
= 43).
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age, years | | | 0–2 | 25 | 58.1 | 3–7 | 5 | 11.6 | 8–12 | 6 | 14.0 | >12 | 7 | 16.3 |
| Presenting symptoms | | | Cough | 31 | 72.1 | Choking | 29 | 67.4 | Fever | 7 | 16.3 | Hoarseness | 3 | 7.0 | Others, that is, vomiting and sore throat | 3 | 7.0 |
| Physical signs | | | Decreased breath sound | 27 | 62.8 | Rhonchi | 9 | 20.9 | Wheezing | 9 | 20.9 | Stridor | 4 | 9.3 | Cyanosis | 1 | 2.3 | Chest retraction | 5 | 11.6 | Normal physical exam | 7 | 16.3 |
| Chest X-ray | | | Hyperaeration | 17 | 39.5 | Atelectasis | 7 | 16.3 | Pulmonary infiltration | 2 | 4.7 | Radioopacity | 4 | 9.3 | Normal | 8 | 18.6 | No data | 5 | 11.6 |
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Note: indicates that one patient may have more than one symptom/sign.
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