Naslov
Spontaneous elimination of an inhaled foreign body through the chest wall

Autori
Hostička, Emilija ; Cigrovski, Nevenka ; Kelečić, Jadranka ; Pasini, Miram

Izvornik
Archives of disease in childhood (0003-9888) 106 (2021); A179-A179

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, stručni

Ključne riječi
inhaled foreign body

Sažetak
A 20-month-old boy was referred to us from another hospital due to deterioration of the respiratory function during right-sided bronchopneumonia and a suspicion of foreign body aspiration. At the admission, the boy was subfebrile, tachycardic and tachydispnoic, with normal oxygen saturation in the room air, drenched in sweat and with a productive cough. Inflammatory parameters were elevated and X-ray of the lungs showed a suspected inflammatory infiltrate in the right cardiophrenic angle. Bronchoscopy did not show the presence of a foreign body in the respiratory system. During hospitalization, swelling developed in the right infrascapular region with redness, induration and with palpable foreign body in the central part. A surgical incision in the general anesthesia was performed with foreign body extraction. It was a wall barley grass inflorescence (lat. Hordeum murinum). Due to the characteristic structure, wall barley inflorescence tends to move in only one direction. In the case shown, after aspiration, the barley grass spikelets migrated through the tracheobronchial tree, penetrating into pulmonary parenchyma to the periphery of the lung, through the pleural layers, intercostal muscles and finally protruded on the chest wall.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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