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Science articlesEpidemiology of foreign objects of the nasal cavity in a large megalopolis
A. S. Yunusov (1), E. V. Molodtsova (1), A. A. Korsunskii (2), A. Yu. Ivoilov (3)
(1) Federal State Budgetary Institution “Clinical Research Centre for Otorhinolaryngology” to the Federal Medico-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
(2) State-Financed Health Institution Children’s Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 9 named after G. N. Speranskiy of Department of Healthcare of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
(3) State-Financed Health Institution Scientific and Research Institute of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology named after L. I. Sverzhevskiy of the Department of Healthcare of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-5-83-87
ABSTRACT
The article presents a retrospective analysis of the prevalence of nose pathology, in particular, foreign objects of the nasal cavity in children’s hospitals in Moscow at the period of 2012 through 2016. The prevailing nose pathology is the nasal injure (23.4%), the 2nd position is occupied by inflammatory diseases of nose and paranasal sinuses (17%), and the 3rd one – by the foreign objects of the nasal cavity (6.6%). Particular attention is paid to foreign objects of the nasal cavity causing complications in children.
Publication date:
02.10.2017
Keywords:
epidemiology, foreign objects, nasal cavity, children. For citation:
Yunusov A. S., Molodtsova E. V., Korsunskii A. A., Ivoilov A. Yu. Epidemiology of foreign objects of the nasal cavity in a large megalopolis. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2017;5:83–87. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-5-83-87