title: Bronchial foreign body: an unusual form of child abuse.
abstract: Bronchial foreign bodies are common in pediatric population. Some times these events may be a form of child abuse. A rare case of child abuse in a 4-month-old boy is reported who presented with a nail in right bronchus. Rigid bronchoscopy was planned and nail was successfully removed. It is suggested that any non-ambulant infant with a foreign body must be viewed with suspicion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India. dr.wadhera@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Raman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wadhera
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Gulati
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garg
authors.forename: Anju
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghai
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male