title: [Presence of a foreign alive body in the left bronchus. A case report].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  approximately 60 % of the foreign bodies accidentally go to the digestive system, mainly to the esophagus, the others going to the airway.
  
  
  METHODS
  a male patient, 18 years old, fisherman in who a fish was introduced into airways. A direct laryngoscopy was performed watching the foreign body. The patient presented severe respiratory failure symptoms. He was admitted to hospital where respiratory support with positive pressure ventilation was started. Forty-eight hours after hospital admission and the onset of the symptoms, he was found unconscious, with piping, subcutaneous emphysema in face, neck, and thorax; A bronchoscopy was performed. A foreign body in the left bronchus was observed and identified as a fish. This proceeded to be withdrawn from between the carina and we also observed material in decomposition, severe inflammatory process and great quantities of purulent secretions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  it was a foreign living body (fish) that could withdrawn.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugia, Hospital General Regional 1 Vicente Guerrero, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. drvicsurgery1@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Víctor Manuel
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Carmona-Delgado
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hinojosa-Pérez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Castillo-López
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D001980:Bronchi; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult