最近10年間の当教室〔福島県立医科大学耳鼻咽喉科学教室〕に於ける下気道ピ-ナツ異物症例の統計的観察(大内仁教授開講20周年記念論文)

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Sixteen patients with peanuts in the air passages have been treated on our department during the last ten years. Most were children under two years of age. In ten cases the foreign body had been lodged in place for five days or longer, and in one, it was lodged there for seventy-nine days. Delay in diagnosis of the foreign bodies was apparently due to the failure of the physician consulted to consider that the symptoms might indicate the presence of a foreign body and to the masking of the symptoms by complications of the bronchi and lungs which subsequently occurred because of the delay. It is emphasized that physicians should take an exact case history and thereby decrease the possibility of preventing a delay in diagnosis.