| dc.description.abstract | lntroduction : Foreign body ingestion and impaction in the esophagus
constitutes an important cause of morbidity and mortality at any groups of
age in worldwide. Characteristics such as age, sex, type of foreign bodies,
cinical symptoms, interval, radiological examination results, location of
impaction, length of time from diagnosed to the esophagoscopy procedure
and complication are factors that involves morbidity and mortality.
Objective : To determine the characteristic of esophageal foreign bodies
in H. Adam Malik General Hospital Medan from January 2006 - December
2011
Method : This is a descriptive study with medical records of patients who
were hospitalized for foreign body ingestion from January 2006
December 2011.
Result : One hundred twenty seven medical records was collected, 113
cases were included in this study ( 71 males and 42 females) aged of 4
month - 75 years old, with mean 16.8 years old, were admitted with the
diagnosis of esophageal foreign body. The most clinical symptoms was
dysphagia 66 cases and odynophagia 43 cases. Anorganic was the most
common foreign bodies 104 cases( coins 56 cases and dentures 31
cases) and organic 9 cases ( chicken bone 3 cases). The most common
site of impaction were upper third 105 cases (92.9%). The duration of
impaction in 50 cases (44.2Yo) was 6-24 hours. 105 cases (92.9o/o\ with >
24 hours length of time from diagnosed to the esophagoscopy procedure'
Complication were noted in 6 cases (5.4%\. There was significant relation
between age and type of foreign body (p=0.001), but there was no
significant relation between sex and type of foreign body (p=0'445). There
was significant relation between age and location of impaction (p<0.05)
Conclusion : The characteristic of esophageal foreign body were
collected and found that there was significant relation between type of
foreign body and age, site of impaction also | en_US |
