title: Bronchoscopic extraction of a chicken bone 5 years after aspiration.
abstract: A 58-year-old man with a remote history of choking on a chicken bone 5 years earlier presented with chronic cough but had no remarkable clinical examination findings. He was being followed for recurrent pneumonias complicated by a resistant empyema, for which he had undergone thoracotomy and decortication. Imaging studies initially missed a foreign body (the chicken bone), which was found on follow-up studies and was removed with a flexible bronchoscope despite the fact that 5 years had passed since the aspiration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Parth
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Rishin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Howlett
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akers
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Margolis
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singhal
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi; D029481:Bronchitis, Chronic / Q000209:etiology*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors