Bronchial Foreign Body – a Rare Cause of Empyema
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A 36−year−old man with organizing right pleural empyema was treated by decortication, however the lung failed to expand. Intraoperative bronchoscopy disclosed foreign body (chicken bone) obstructing the right main bronchus. Extraction of the foreign body was followed by immediate expansion of the lung and uneventful recovery. Pleural empyema may be caused by a foreign body obstructing bronchus. Such possibility should be considered in patients with empyema of undetermined etiology (Adv Clin Exp Med 2005, 14, 4, 839–841).
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