Unusual Bronchial Foreign Body with a Bizarre Entry Path

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Jeenam Shah Jayalakshmi T.K Bhumika Madhav Sharad Bhalekar Dhanaji Rewande Shantesh Kaushik

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Bhumika Madhav
Consultant Pulmonologist, Apollo Hospital Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Foreign body in the bronchus is usually aspirated, ingested or deposited. Entry of a bronchial foreign body through the neck via a rent in the trachea is rare. A freak accident occurred when our 58 year old patient was overseeing crane operation at 4- a steel plant and a metallic foreign body pierced the patient’s trachea and was lodged in his right bronchus intermedius. Metallic body was removed using a snare via a flexible bronchoscope. A morbid open thoracic surgery was avoided by a timely procedure. Our case highlights that foreign body in the lungs can also enter via open penetrating wounds in the neck or chest and can be removed by bronchoscopy avoiding complex surgical procedures.

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Publication history

Received: Tue 02, Jan 2024
Accepted: Wed 21, Feb 2024
Published: Thu 21, Mar 2024

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© 2023 Bhumika Madhav. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2024.01.05