Cardero RAE, Mojena RG, Porto PY, del Río SL, Calas IG

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ABSTRACT

A descriptive, observational and longitudinal investigation in the Otolaryngology Service of "Dr. Antonio María Béguez César" Southern Children Hospital was carried out in Santiago de Cuba from January, 2015 to December, 2017, aimed at characterizing the 341 children and adolescents assisted in the emergency room because they presented aerodigestive foreign bodies. In the case material There was a prevalence of under 5 age group (62.5 %), male sex (52.8 %), urban origin (65.1 %), organic foreign bodies (67.4 %), the nasal cavity as anatomical localization, nasal obstruction as main symptom and the manual extraction through previous rhinoscopy. In 11.1 % of the radiographic exams the foreign body was observed. Just a patient died during the study.