title: An unusual foreign body in trachea.
abstract: We report a very unusual case of foreign body (FB) in the tracheo-bronchial tract of a male child, who presented to us in the Emergency Department at our tertiary care centre with the complaint of FB in throat, cough bouts and choking sensation with pain and difficulty in breathing for whom an emergency rigid endoscopy was carried out after appropriate investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital & Karachi Medical & Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan. ayubmusani@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mohammad Ayub
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Musani
authors.forename: Yousuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Khambaty
authors.forename: Itrat
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jawed
authors.forename: Faheem Ahmed
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: S Khalid A
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ashrafi
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones; D002648:Child; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D001239:Inhalation; D008297:Male; D014132:Trachea