title: Overlooked foreign body: eighteen years inside the bronchus.
abstract: A long-standing undiagnosed foreign body bronchus in an adult is very rare. We report a rare case of an overlooked foreign body in the bronchus. A 38-year-old man presented with the complaints of chronic cough with expectoration and wheezing for the last 18 years. Computed tomography of the chest detected a foreign body in the right lower lobar bronchus. Detailed history revealed that the patient had aspirated a whistle 18 years earlier that was overlooked by the treating clinicians. It remained undiagnosed in chest radiographs. It was extracted using a rigid bronchoscope. We emphasize the need to remain vigilant for endobronchial foreign bodies in patients with persistent cough and wheeze.
authors.affiliation: Departments of *Otolaryngology †Pulmonary Medicine ‡Anesthesiology, Pt. B.D.S. PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Raman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wadhera
authors.forename: Sat Paul
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Gulati
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kalra
authors.forename: Anju
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghai
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garg