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Penetrating injuries to the oropharynx

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Hiroko Kosaki ,
Naoya Nakamura  and
Yasuji Toriyama
Hiroko Kosaki*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
Naoya Nakamura
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Toshiba Central Hospital, Tokyo.
Yasuji Toriyama
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo.
*
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113, Japan. Fax: (3) 3814-9486.
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Abstract

A review was made of 12 cases of penetrating injuries to the oropharynx seen at Musashino Red Cross Hospital during the period from 1984 to 1988, and their records were compared with those of past cases with similar injuries reported in a survey for the period between 1949 and 1959. Most of the patients were children under the age of four and were injured when they fell with a sharp-edged object in the mouth. Penetrating injuries to the oropharynx occasionally cause severe complications, including retropharyngeal abscess and mediastinitis. This type of injury should be called a ‘pencil injury’.

Keywords

OropharynxWoundspenetrating

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 106 , Issue 9 , September 1992 , pp. 813 - 816
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1992

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