Table 1.
Demographic and clinical data of 1402 patients undergoing rigid endoscopy (RE) or flexible endoscopy (FE)
| Author, year, country | Study design | #Pts | Mean age | Male (%) | Procedure | Foreign body type (n) | Procedures attempted (n) | Successful procedures (n) | Overall complications (n) | Perforations (n) | Esophageal localization (n) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt | Sharp | Long | Food | Upper | Middle | Lower | ||||||||||
| Bergreen, 1993, USA | Retrospective | 118 | 31.5 | nr | FE | 22 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 78 | 75 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 46 |
| RE | 35 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| Gmeiner, 2007, Austria | Retrospective | 138 | 64 | 49.6 | FE | 9 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 76 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 45 |
| RE | 13 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 62 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 54 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Russell, 2014, USA |
Retrospective | 657 | 3.5 | 55 | FE | nr | nr | nr | nr | 366 | 359 | 5 | 0 | 290 | 36 | 34 |
| RE | 291 | 281 | 6 | 0 | 220 | 28 | 41 | |||||||||
| Tseng, 2015, Taiwan |
Retrospective | 273 | 48.7 | 41.4 | FE | nr | nr | nr | nr | 142 | 137 | 1 | 1 | nr | nr | nr |
| RE | 131 | 126 | 5 | 3 | nr | nr | nr | |||||||||
| Wang, 2014, China |
Retrospective | 216 | 50.6 | 42.0 | FE | 14 | 38 | 0 | 22 | 74 | 72 | 34 | 1 | 45 | 21 | 8 |
| RE | 53 | 84 | 0 | 5 | 142 | 142 | 40 | 8 | 126 | 13 | 3 | |||||
nr not reported