title: Thoracoscopic Retrieval of Unusual Iatrogenic Foreign Bodies.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Management of pyothorax and pneumothorax requires aspiration and/or intercostal drainage.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present two cases which were complicated by instrument-related events resulting in breakage of needle or intercostal drainage tube resulting in pleural foreign body.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients were stabilized and the foreign bodies retrieved using thoracoscopic approach.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thoracoscopy provides a minimally invasive approach to deal with pleural foreign bodies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, Geeta Colony, Delhi, India. Correspondence to: Dr Vivek Manchanda, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, Geeta Colony, Delhi 110 031, India. vivek7477@gmail.com.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Manchanda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sengar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohta
mesh_terms: D015505:Chest Tubes / Q000009:adverse effects; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009339:Needles / Q000009:adverse effects; D013906:Thoracoscopy