[Complications in ear-nose-throat day surgery].

Background: More and larger operations are performed on an outpatient basis with patient leaving the hospital the same day and complications may remain unknown to the hospital unless the patients are asked explicitly.

Material And Methods: Complications from 383 ear-nose-throat operations were registered continuously by the surgeon and supplemented with data from postoperative consultations and reports from other hospitals or doctors, and then compared with data from 328 (86%) postoperative patient interviews.

Results: According to the patient interviews, the rate of complications (16.

[Flexible bronchoscopy].

Background: Bronchoscopic examination is an established method, most often performed by lung doctors, yet still mandatory in the training of specialists in otolaryngology. Little has so far been published on the safety and diagnostic and therapeutic value of this procedure in our country.

Material And Methods: Specialists or residents in otolaryngology performed 140 flexible bronchoscopies in 132 consecutive patients during 1993-2000.

[Foreign bodies in the oesophagus].

We have evaluated 229 endoscopic examinations of the oesophagus performed during the period 1983 to 1989 in patients suspected of having foreign bodies in the oesophagus. The majority of our patients were aged 60 or more. Meat was the most frequent foreign body found in all the patients and particularly so in the elderly, while coins were most common in children.