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