Asymptomatic inhaled foreign body

Asymptomatic inhaled foreign body

It is very rare to have a big foreign body in the lungs without any complications or symptoms for 2 years. A 14-year-old male with episodes of minor hemoptysis for 4 weeks had a history of inhalation of a bullet 2 years earlier. He had asymptomatic for lung complications for 2 years. The bullet was removed by right thoracotomy and  non-anatomical wedge stapled resection, and he followed an unev...

Long-standing Asymptomatic Intralenticular Foreign Body

Dear Editor, Intralenticular foreign bodies are uncommon after penetrating eye injuries, occurring in approximately 5% to 10% of cases [1]. They generally present with a decrease in visual acuity resulting from aggravation of a traumatic cataract. In Korea, there has been only one previous report of an intralenticular foreign body, which was retained for 6 months [2]. Several previous reports d...

Inhaled Foreign Body in Children Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week

He had been eating three hours previously and his mother gave a history of a sudden bout of coughing. On arrival in the emergency department, he was distressed, crying and coughing intermittently. He had no stridor, however his respiratory rate was 40 breaths per minute with some intercostal and sternal recession. Auscultation revealed a mild wheeze worse on the right side of the chest. Saturat...

Extrusion of an inhaled foreign body through the chest wall.

Small children are given to putting inedible objects into their mouths, whence they are not uncommonly inhaled into the respiratory tree, becoming impacted in a bronchus and setting up unpleasant secondary septic complications. Once beyond the larynx it is unusual for such objects to be coughed up spontaneously, and as a rule they have to be removed by bronchoscopy or by thoracotomy and broncho...

Asymptomatic intracardiac migration of a sharp foreign body.