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Foreign body (FB) aspiration is a rare incident in adults. Many patients cannot recall the episode of aspiration and are hospitalized with complications of an endobronchial FB.We present a case with right-sided chronic pleural empyema, ineffectively treated in another hospital with chest drainage, uniportal VATS, and insertion of five chest drains as a result of occult foreign body aspiration. Endoscopic extirpation of a foreign body in the right lower lobar bronchus was performed. Right posterolateral thoracotomy, decortication, and pleurectomy were performed because of a trapped right lung.Preoperative bronchoscopy is recommended in all patients with pleural empyema before surgery. When chest drainage and VATS are unsuccessful in expanding the lung in chronic empyema then thoracotomy, debridement, pleurectomy, and decortication are indicated.

Development of organized pleural empyema as a result of occult foreign body aspiration