title: An unusual endobronchial foreign body: a gauze that migrated from the mediastinum.
abstract: The authors report a 48-year-old white male with lung cancer who was admitted to their clinic with a 1-year history of cough and shortness of breath. The patient was hospitalized because of progression of his complaints over 1 month. On the 3rd day of hospitalization, he expectorated a piece of gauze. The authors performed a fiber-optic bronchoscopy and saw pieces of gauze originating from granulation tissue located in the angle of the lower trachea and left main bronchi. A detailed anamnesis revealed that a mediastinoscopy had been performed 3 years ago for lung cancer staging: the gauze had migrated from the mediastinum to the endobrochial space.
authors.affiliation: Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Trabzon, Turkey. foztuna@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Funda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oztuna
authors.forename: Yilmaz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bülbül
authors.forename: Tevfik
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ozlü
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008481:Mediastinoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D008482:Mediastinum; D008875:Middle Aged; D015503:Surgical Sponges