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Pediatric foreign body ingestion in Makkah, Saudi Arabia

A retrospective epidemiological study

Bayan O. Besharah, Rehab F. Simsim, Lina Y. Natto, Ahmad J. Khiyami and Ahed A. Aqeel
Saudi Medical Journal June 2023, 44 (6) 594-600; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.6.20230090
Bayan O. Besharah
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Rehab F. Simsim
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Lina Y. Natto
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 44 no. 6 594-600
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.6.20230090
PubMed 
37343995

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 5, 2023
  • Accepted May 11, 2023
  • Published online June 21, 2023.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Bayan O. Besharah, MD, SBORL⇑,
  2. Rehab F. Simsim, MD, SBORL,
  3. Lina Y. Natto, MD,
  4. Ahmad J. Khiyami, MD and
  5. Ahed A. Aqeel, MD, SBORL
  1. From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Besharah), King Abdullah Medical Complex; from the Department of Urology (Khiyami), International Medical Center, Jeddah; from the Clinical Science Department (Simsim), College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Natto), King Abdullah Medical City; from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aqeel), Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Bayan O. Besharah, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, King Abdullah Medical Complex, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Bayan.o.b{at}gmail.com
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