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Cell and Material Interface
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Cell and Material Interface

by Nihal Engin Vrana
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
294 pages
11h 13m
English
CRC Press
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250 Cell and Material Interface
of food) or by accident (e.g., inhalation of asbestos and coal particles by construc-
tion workers or miners). Foreign bodies can enter the organism through a variety of
ways. The most common way is through the natural orices of the human body: the
mouth, nostrils, ear canals, eyes, urethra, anus, and vagina. Foreign body ingestion
frequently occurs in children between 6months and 6years of age; they account
for up to 80% of the cases [18]. The prevalent ingested objects are coins; they are
found in 66% of cases. In adults or children above 11years old, 60% of the foreign
bodies retained in the gastrointestinal tract are food boluses. Although in the United
States alone more than 1500 patients annually die ...
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