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JO ONO, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1965;81(4):416-420.

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FOREIGN body accidents in the air and food passages occur without discrimination to age, sex, or nationality. Difference, however, is inevitable in the nature and frequency of foreign bodies in each country, influenced by mode of living, customs, habits, and environment.

This paper deals with a brief statistical report of foreign body cases collected from 92 hospitals scattered throughout Japan, where the population of almost 100 million is crowded into an area no larger than the state of California.

All of the 46 existing medical schools, or 100%, responded to this survey. In addition, 24 national and public hospitals and 22 private hospitals also supplied their data for the study.

Although in some of the hospitals detailed information on certain patients was not complete, it is hoped that the following analytical report may serve as a fair representation of what is to be seen in my country.

The figures which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TOKYO

From the Department of Otolaryngology and Bronchoesophagology, Keio University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 9, 1964.

Read before the Section on Laryngology, Otology, and Rhinology at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 22, 1964.

Reprint requests to Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo.

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