Although patient mobility has increased over the world, in Europe there is a lack of empirical studies. The aim of the study was to compare foreign non-resident patients versus domestic patients for the particular Catalan case, focusing on patient characteristics, hospitalisation costs and differences in costs depending on the typology of the hospital they are treated. We used data from the 201...

This case report describes a patient who had a foreign body in transverse sinus. A 35-year-old Korean-Chinese man visited the emergency room with lacerated wound in left eyelid and a foreign body which was stumbled upon in the skull. On examination, there was right side hemianopsia in his left eye. He did not complain any headache or show any abnormal neurological signs, but there was a foreign...

Introduction: Impacted foreign bodies in the esophagus and trachea are a common occurrence in the adult population, with patients often presenting with a variety of vague symptoms [1, 2]. Case Report: We report a case of a patient who accidentally swallowed his partial dentures and presented to our Ear, Nose and Throat department nine weeks later despite numerous presentations to primary and se...

Foreign bodies (FB) are a common occurrence in the realm of ENT practice. The most commonly involved sites are nasal cavities, ears, and pharynx. Foreign bodies are accompanied by site-related symptoms and do not pose much of a challenge to well-trained physicians. Foreign bodies may be introduced willingly by the patient or by accident. Paranasal sinus foreign bodies are rarely seen, and most ...

A 58-yr-old obese male with obstructive sleep apnoea and asthma, for which he used nebulised bronchodilators, presented with a 4-month history of wheeze and stridor on both inspiration and expiration. There was a small amount of fresh haemoptysis if he coughed vigorously. A plain chest radio-graph was normal. The patient was treated for an exacerbation of asthma but there was little improvement...

BACKGROUND Tracheobronchial foreign body aspirations, which threaten lives in childhood, also carry potential risks during and after bronchoscopy. The aim of this study is to review complications and precautions that need to be taken against possible risks. METHODS From 1987 to 2005, bronchoscopy was done in 1,035 children in our department on suspicion of foreign body aspiration. The average...

A patient who recently came under my care had been struck in the right eye by a foreign body whilst hammering a piece of steel with hammer and cold chisel. A diagnosis of intra-ocular foreign body was made, there being a small entrance wound in the centre of the cornea and an opaque lens. This diagnosis was confirmed by x ray. The foreign body, measuring about 3j x 1 x 1 mm. was located in the ...

Ingestion of foreign bodies is a common problem in the otolaryngology practice. Reports of extraluminal migration of the foreign bodies from the upper aerodigestive tract are rare. Penetration and extraluminal migration of ingested foreign bodies may cause severe vascular and suppurative complications, even death. We report a 4-year-old girl who presented with a mass and partial extrusion of a ...

Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) are not uncommon in patients of penetrating ocular trauma but intralenticular foreign bodies are rarely seen. Penetrating ocular injuries are observed more commonly in young men. Intralenticular foreign bodies cause visually significant cataract in almost all cases. We report here a case of a young soldier with intralenticular foreign body of about 1.5 mm in s...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to report the psychiatric, neuroradiological and linguistic characteristics in a native speaker of Dutch who developed speech symptoms which strongly resemble Foreign Accent Syndrome. BACKGROUND Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare speech production disorder in which the speech of a patient is perceived as foreign by speakers of the same speech community. This ...