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. 2014 Winter;2(1):50-2.

A 16-Year-Old Girl with Acute Onset Respiratory Distress

Saeed Safari  1 , Ebrahim Karimi  2 , Alireza Baratloo  1 , Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam  3 , Mohammad Kalantarimeibodi  4
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A 16-Year-Old Girl with Acute Onset Respiratory Distress

Saeed Safari et al. Emerg (Tehran). 2014 Winter.
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Lateral neck x-ray
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Posterior anterior upright chest x-ray
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Lateral neck x ray. The location of foreign body is marked with dash triangle
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