INTRODUCTION Distal embedded airway foreign bodies can be challenging to manage. Endoscopic retrieval techniques, such as the use of appropriately sized graspers or a Fogarty catheter passed distally to the foreign body and inflated to pull the foreign body proximally, are mainstay. Successful retrieval may become more difficult as foreign bodies become lodged more distally in segmental or subs...

BACKGROUND Double-lumen endobronchial tubes (DLTs) are commonly advanced into the mainstem bronchus either blindly or by fiberoptic bronchoscopic guidance. However, blind advancement may result in misplacement of left-sided DLTs into the right bronchus. Therefore, incidence, risk factors, and blind repositioning techniques for right bronchial misplacement of left-sided DLTs were investigated. ...

An association of systemic amyloid with a squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus is described. Amyloid may be associated with myeloma and neuroendocrine tumours but has not been described in squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus.

To cite: Goussard P, Gie R, Andronikou S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202017 DESCRIPTION A 17-year-old boy with known severe cerebral palsy presented with cough, fever and shortness of breath. He was a spastic quadriplegic with muscle weakness, severe scoliosis and poor cough which made it difficult for him to clear respiratory secre...

A 69-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of right chest pain. Chest computed tomography showed a 55 × 45 mm tumor in the right upper lobe. Bronchoscopy revealed displaced anomalous B 1 and B 2+3 arising from the right main bronchus, and the patient was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma by transbronchial lung biopsy from the displaced B 2+3 . Three-dimensional computed tomography wi...

A 76-year-old male underwent a left upper lobectomy with wedge resection of the superior segment of the left lower lobe using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for non-small-cell lung cancer of the left upper lobe. He presented with shortness of breath, fever, and leukocytosis. Chest radiography showed atelectasis at the remaining left lower lobe. Bronchoscopy revealed narrowing of th...

SYNOPSIS The pathological findings in a patient who died two months after right lung transplantation for fibrosing alveolitis are reported. The cause of death was haemoptysis, due to penetrating ulceration causing a fistula between the surface of the cartilagenous part of the main bronchus of the donor lung and the right upper lobe pulmonary artery. The opening in the donor bronchus was immedia...

Tracheal bronchus is a rare anatomic variant in which a bronchus originates from the trachea. Patients may be asymptomatic or present with a variety of respiratory symptoms. We present a case of a patient who presented with a history of poorly controlled asthma and a persistent abnormality of the flow-volume loop. Bronchoscopy revealed a tracheal bronchus with narrowed right-sided bronchial ori...

Lung cancer is the most common fatal malignancy for both men and women and adenocarcinoma is the most common histologic type. Early diagnosis of lung cancer can significantly improve the survival rate of patients. This study aimed to investigate the micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) manifestations of early lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) in mice and to provide a new perspective for early clinical ...

BACKGROUND Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) has been developed as a novel ancillary tool for the bronchoscopic diagnosis of pulmonary nodules. Despite successful navigation in 90% of patients, ENB diagnostic yield does not generally exceed 70%. We sought to determine whether the presence of a bronchus sign on CT imaging conditions diagnostic yield of ENB and might account for the d...