Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent non-resolving pneumonia - the case of foreign body aspiration in adult mimicking lung neoplasm.
Foreign-body tracheobronchial aspiration in adults is fairly rare, and it is caused mostly by the failure of airway protective mechanisms. The symptoms of this clinical entity can mimic many other respiratory diseases, such as recurrent or non-resolving pneumonia, asthma, lung neoplasm etc. Flexible bronchoscopy was indicated in this situation, both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. We are reporting on a case of a fiftythree- year old women with recurrent, non-resolving pneumonia, recurrent hemoptysis, dyspnea, fiver, chest pain and radiological presentation of middle lobe neoplasm caused by aspirated chicken neck bone.
1School of Medicine, University of Niš, 2Clinic for Lung Diseases, Clinical Center Niš, 3Special Hospital for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Nonspecific Pulmonary Diseases, Soko Banja; Serbia.
Lidija
L
Ristić
Milan
M
Rančić
Dragan
D
Stanojević
Milan
M
Radović
Zorica
Z
Ćirić
D001980:Bronchi; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012008:Recurrence; D014132:Trachea