The Missing Tooth: A Curious Case of Postobstructive Pneumonia | Zendy

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The Missing Tooth: A Curious Case of Postobstructive Pneumonia

Author(s) -

Ian Holmes,

Kiran Gajurel,

José G. Montoya

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofw088

Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , computed tomography , foreign body , radiology , thorax (insect anatomy) , aspiration pneumonia , intensive care medicine , anatomy

Foreign body aspirations that are not recognized at the time of aspiration can lead to insidious symptoms that can present a diagnostic challenge. We report the case of a 70-year-old man presenting with postobstructive pneumonia 2 months after aspirating his own tooth during a meal. He had been mistakenly diagnosed with asthma and treated with bronchodilators before a computed tomography scan of the thorax revealed the impacted tooth in his left bronchus. We review the clinical features and microbiology of postobstructive pneumonia and discuss the rationale of its treatment.

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