title: Plate atelectasis: an implication of foreign body aspiration into the lower airways in two adults.
abstract: Pneumonic patches and atelectatic or bronchiectatic changes in the tributary lung distal to the bronchial foreign body are common radiographic abnormal findings in adults with foreign body aspiration into the lower airways. Nevertheless, plate (plate-like or discoid) atelectasis, a form of peripheral atelectasis, has not been reported to associate with this condition. In this report, we describe two men with the foreign body impacted in the right intermediate bronchus. In both cases, plate atelectasis was found in the base of the right lung and disappeared after successful removal of the foreign body via fiberoptic bronchoscopy. These two cases illustrate that plate atelectasis may be an implication of foreign body aspiration into the lower airways.
authors.affiliation: Chest Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001980:Bronchi; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000209:etiology*