Open AccessForeign Body Aspiration: An Unusual Presentation and Outcome
Author(s) -
Surabhi Jaggi,
Anuj Kumar,
Kranti Garg,
Deepak Aggarwal,
Reetu Kundu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/32020.10643
Subject(s) - choking , medicine , foreign body aspiration , foreign body , bronchoscopy , bronchus , presentation (obstetrics) , right main bronchus , left main bronchus , radiography , surgery , radiology , foreign bodies , lesion , chest radiograph , flexible bronchoscopy , respiratory disease , lung , anatomy
Foreign body aspiration mostly presents as acute emergency with cough, choking and dyspnoea. Rarely aspiration of foreign body may be the underlying cause in patients presenting with long term symptomatologies. Here is a case of 60-year-old male who came for surgical management of cholelithiasis. During his workup, X-ray chest revealed right paracardiac opacity. Fibre-optic bronchoscopy showed a mass lesion in right main bronchus. It was taken out of the airways by flexible bronchoscope but could not be retrieved. Subsequent chest radiographs showed marked improvement.