Impacted foreign body bronchus: Role of percussion in removal

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
² Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

Shilpa Goyal et al. Indian J Anaesth. 2013 Nov.

. 2013 Nov;57(6):630-1.

doi: 10.4103/0019-5049.123349.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
² Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Mawdiangdiang, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

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