title: Effect of surgery on delayed inhaled foreign body: a case report.
abstract: The occurrence of foreign body is uncommon in youths and adults. We report here a case of 16-year-old boy who inhaled a foreign body which was overlooked for 6 months. The patient suffered productive cough and received antibiotic treatment for 10 days. But the symptoms did not improve. Chest radiography and CT scan revealed a 1-cm-long needle-like foreign object in the right inferior lobar bronchus. Wedge resection of lung was finally performed because of severe hemorrhage caused by prior bronchoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Tie-wen
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Xue-wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Zhi-fei
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography