Abstract
This description is made about foreign body cases treated in the ENT Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, from 1956 to 1965.
1.15% of 48, 902 patients who visited the Clinic during these 10 years had some foreign bodies in their food or air passage or some other canal. 48.7% of all foreign body cases, or 0.56% of all the patients who visited the Clinic during this period were related to the esophgus, 12.9% of foreign body cases or 0.15% of all the patients were concerned with the lower respiratory tract. The others were composed of 102 cases related to the pharynx, the larynx and the stomach, 36 cases related to the nasal cavities or the auditory meatuses and 77 patients in whom was not found any foreign body through attentive examinations such as endoscopy or X-ray searching (Table1).
