Pulmonary aspiration presenting with generalised convulsions.
Foreign body in the tracheobronchial tree is a relatively infrequent, but, potentially fatal event, requiring rapid and expert intervention. The symptoms and signs may be mistaken for asthma and pneumonia, - or, as in the case described, with grand mal epileptiform seizures. This emphasises the need to take a thorough case history, and to have a high index of suspicion in a case presenting with convulsion associated with cough, wheezing or respiratory distress.
D000293:Adolescent; D001980:Bronchi; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000175:diagnosis*