An unusual case of empyema; intrapleural migration of an inhaled oat head in an adult.
We report an unusual case of unnoticed aspiration of an oat head by a healthy 19-year-old male. The foreign body migrated to the right pleural cavity and caused a severe persistent empyema, which resolved only after a thoracotomy . The lodging of a grass head in the pleura is a very rare event, almost never reported in an adult.
D000328:Adult; D004653:Empyema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010994:Pleura; D006109:Poaceae; D011859:Radiography