Open AccessAn unusual long standing tracheal foreign body – A rare incidence
Author(s) -
Santosh Kumar Swain,
Rajalaxmi Panigrahi,
Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra,
Chinmaya Sundaray,
Mahesh Chandra Sahu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
egyptian journal of ear nose throat and allied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2090-3405
pISSN - 2090-0740
DOI - 10.1016/j.ejenta.2014.12.001
Subject(s) - foreign body , medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , airway , otorhinolaryngology , inhalation , foreign bodies , incidence (geometry) , foreign body aspiration , surgery , anesthesia , physics , optics
Foreign body (FB) inhalation is often encountered by emergent otolaryngology services. A long standing undiagnosed FB in trachea is very rare and lethal. Inhalation of betel nut and presenting at the proximal trachea is rarer. As often in the airway FB gravitate to bronchi, long standing tracheal FB is a rare presentation and also rare in the literature. Children who are not given proper individual attention at an early age are more liable to inhale FB. FB aspiration is associated with significant morbidity