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Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2004;12:387
© 2004 Asia Publishing EXchange Ltd

IMAGES IN CARDIOTHORACIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY

An Unusual History of a Foreign Body Aspiration

Sedat Demircan, MD, Burçin Çelik, MD1, Ahmet Basoglu, MD1

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty, Gazi University
1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty, 19 Mayis University, Ankara, Turkey

For reprint information contact: I. Cüneyt Kurul, MD Tel: 90 312 202 5638 Fax: 90 312 212 9014 Email: cuneyt{at}gazi.edu.tr, Oyak Sitesi Blok 1/20, 06610 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey.

A 34-year-old female patient was admitted with symptoms of dyspnea and coughing. She had trauma to her face 20 days ago and felt that her 6 crown bridge was lost. However she did not do anything about it. The following morning she realised that the bridge was missing.

Radiographs of the chest revealed a radiopaque density resembling a crown bridge, projected in the middle zone of right lung (Figure 1Go). Rigid bronchoscopy was carried under general anaesthesia. A foreign body was detected in the intermediate bronchus and was removed with forceps (Figure 2Go). The patient’s recovery was uneventful.




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  		Figure 1. Posterolateral and lateral graphies showing foreign body on the lateral side of lung.

 


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  		Figure 2. The photograph of the extracted foreign body. (6 5 4 3 crown bridge)

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are thankful to Dr. I. Cüneyt Kurul, MD, as a writer of this paper.





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