Bronchial entrapment of a chicken bone for 14 years.
Prolonged airway entrapment of a foreign body is a rare occurrence. We report a case of a chicken bone retained in the right main bronchus for 14 years and highlight the importance of a foreign body in the airway in the differential diagnosis of chronic and intractable cough.
Lee
S W
SW
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Fang
T J
TJ
Hsu
C W
CW
Li
H Y
HY
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors