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A CLINICAL SURVEY FROM THE BRONCHOSCOPIC POINT OF VIEW

V. K. HART, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1937;53(6):1544-1567.

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Much has been written on the recognition and the management of foreign bodies in the respiratory tract in children and the attendant infections. Time and space do not permit individual references to the many publications of Jackson, Clerf and Tucker on this subject. The experiences of my co-workers and me over a ten year period have been described in a paper in which we analyzed a large series of consecutive cases of foreign bodies in the food and the air passages.¹ A second communication dealt with oxygen therapy in the postbronchoscopic care of children following the extraction of foreign bodies.² Hence, in the present paper I shall not deal with foreign bodies per se.

Pulmonary suppuration has also had a voluminous literature since the advent of bronchoscopy. It is believed, nevertheless, that a presentation solely from the pediatric aspect will lack neither in clinical nor in therapeutic interest. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHARLOTTE, N. C.

From the Charlotte Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section of the South Carolina State Medical Society at Columbia, S. C., on Oct. 17, 1933; before the North Carolina Pediatric Society at Charlotte, N. C., on May 23, 1934, and before the general session of the North Carolina State Medical Society at Pinehurst, N. C., on May 8. 1935.

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