title: Management of foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree in adults: a 10-year experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report our experience of foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree in adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Teaching hospital, Athens.
  
  
  METHODS
  25 patients referred to the department of thoracic surgery for treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bronchoscopic extraction in 16, thoracotomy with bronchotomy in 5, and resection in 4.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No major complications and no deaths.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bronchoscopic extraction is usually possible, but thoracotomy and bronchotomy or resection may be necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Evangelismos General Hospital, Holargos, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Athanassiadi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kalavrouziotis
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lepenos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hatzimichalis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loutsidis
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bellenis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001980:Bronchi; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014132:Trachea