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Table 1 Demographic and clinical data of 1402 patients undergoing rigid endoscopy (RE) or flexible endoscopy (FE)

From: Flexible versus rigid endoscopy in the management of esophageal foreign body impaction: systematic review and meta-analysis

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

  1. nr not reported