Medical image of the week: tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration
| Autor: | Huthayfa Ateeli, Joshua Dill, Khushboo Goel, Dena L’heureux |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
bronchoscopy aspiration business.industry lcsh:R5-130.5 lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid complication lcsh:RC86-88.9 foreign body chest x-ray Foreign body aspiration cough syringe cap atelectasis Medicine pneumonia Radiology business cashew lcsh:General works |
| Zdroj: | Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 13, Iss 4, Pp 184-185 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2160-6773 |
| Popis: | No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. Case 1 (Figure 1) is a 58-year-old man who accidentally inhaled his insulin syringe cap while swinging on his recliner with the cap perched in his mouth. He developed a dry irritating cough. On exam he had mild stridor in the upper airways and bilateral wheezing. The insulin cap was visualized by bronchoscopy in the right mainstem bronchus and retrieved with forceps. Case 2 (Figure 2) is a 65-year-old man with chronic dysphagia and poor dentition who choked on a cashew. It took repeated coughing attempts to produce the cashew, but it was unclear whether the entire content was cleared. He then developed non-massive hemoptysis that persisted for 2 weeks. Thoracic CT showed ground glass opacities and an air fluid level in the right middle lobe. The foreign body was visualized in the right lower lobe bronchus as an endobronchial-filling defect. Bronchoscopy revealed a cashew piece in the right lower ... |
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