[A case of traumatic intrapulmonary foreign body].
A case of 60-year-old man with traumatic intrapulmonary foreign body that was not inhaled, but through the chest wall was described. In July 1992 a grass cutter was working in a forestry with a circular saw when he was struck into the right lung. He had a sharp pain in the anterior chest. No abnormality was seen in front of his neck and the chest wall. The next month he developed a cough with bloody sputum. The chest X-ray showed a metallic foreign body at the right side of manubrium. Computed tomogram showed a steel wire fragment lodging beside the innominate artery and vein and in the right lung. Median sternotomy was performed and a foreign body was successfully removed with partial resection of upper lobe.
Tatsumi
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A
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kochi Municipal Hospital, Japan.
Hanaoka
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S
Yamamoto
Y
Y
Nakamura
T
T
Kitamura
F
F
Miyamoto
N
N
D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D055370:Lung Injury; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy