Bronchoscopic extraction of a chicken bone 5 years after aspiration.

Abstract

A 58-year-old man with a remote history of choking on a chicken bone 5 years earlier presented with chronic cough but had no remarkable clinical examination findings. He was being followed for recurrent pneumonias complicated by a resistant empyema, for which he had undergone thoracotomy and decortication. Imaging studies initially missed a foreign body (the chicken bone), which was found on follow-up studies and was removed with a flexible bronchoscope despite the fact that 5 years had passed since the aspiration.

• Authors: Parth Shah, Angela Han, Rishin Patel, Paul Howlett, Scott Akers, Mitchell Margolis, Sunil Singhal
• Journal: Ear, nose, & throat journal (Ear Nose Throat J) Vol. 94 Issue 1 Pg. E27-9 (Jan 2015) ISSN: 1942-7522 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 25606842 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Bronchi
• Bronchitis, Chronic (etiology)
• Bronchoscopy
• Cough (etiology)
• Foreign Bodies (complications, diagnosis, therapy)
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Pneumonia (etiology)
• Recurrence
• Time Factors