Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign body ingestion in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study
The ratio of FBI cases increased significantly during the pandemic in comparison with the two previous years. The high hospitalization rates, although stable during the pandemic, underline the significant morbidity associated with paediatric FBI.
Authors
- Nelson Piché (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-2497)
- Savannah Gorenko-Lévêque
- C Deslandres
- Véronique Groleau
- Nda Mefo apos o Jean Pierre
- Boris Djoukam Mbuko
- A Chekkal
- Prévost Jantchou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8907-5687)
- Yishen Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4951-9703)
- Annie Lapointe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-4809)
- Dany Hermann Ngwanou
- Jocelyn Gravel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-4990)
- L Dehbidi Assadzadeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-0926)
- Audrey Gallant
- Martha Dirks
Institutions
- Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CA)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
- Published
- 2025-07-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwaf012
- Primary Topic
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00