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The swallowed foreign body: is it in the nasopharynx?
A J Parker1, B J Bingham, J E Osborne
1Department of Otolaryngology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
Children with a history of a suspected swallowed radio-opaque foreign body should undergo radiographic examination of the nasopharynx even in the absence of symptoms and signs. Failure to identify and remove an object at this site can result in potentially fatal consequences.