title: [A case of traumatic intrapulmonary foreign body].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kochi Municipal Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tatsumi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hanaoka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D055370:Lung Injury; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy