title: An unusual foreign body in tracheobronchial tree: removed by fiberoptic bronchoscope.
abstract: Tracheostomy is a life saving procedure and many a times patients are discharged with permanent tracheostomy tubes. Rarely, a tracheostomy tube may break and enter the tracheobronchial tree. We present a case of an adult female in whom the broken tracheostomy tube entered the right main bronchus and was removed by fiberoptic bronchoscopy under topical anaesthesia.
authors.affiliation: Department of TB and Chest Diseases, Medical College, Amritsar.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kallan
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi; D001995:Bronchography; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D008875:Middle Aged; D011143:Polyvinyl Chloride; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D011143:Polyvinyl Chloride