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Diagnostic value of chest CT scan for airway foreign body aspiration in children

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Retrospective analysis shows chest CT scans identify foreign bodies with 97% sensitivity, reducing unnecessary bronchoscopy in children.

Chest CT scans demonstrate high diagnostic accuracy for detecting foreign body aspiration in children.
The sensitivity of chest CT scans for identifying foreign body aspiration is 97.14%, while specificity is 92.86%.
Mucopurulent secretions are the most common finding during bronchoscopy in suspected foreign body aspiration cases.
The most frequent foreign body found during bronchoscopy was a sunflower seed.

Mohammadzadeh et al. (2025) studied this question.

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