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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 87-88 |
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Spontaneous expulsion of vegetative foreign body (carrot piece) from the right main bronchus
Sat Pal Yadav, Bhushan Kathuria, Sharad Hernot, Jai Singh Malik
Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, Haryana, India
| Date of Web Publication | 21-Jan-2016 |
Correspondence Address:
Bhushan Kathuria
Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, Haryana
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-9727.174673
How to cite this article:
Yadav SP, Kathuria B, Hernot S, Malik JS. Spontaneous expulsion of vegetative foreign body (carrot piece) from the right main bronchus. Muller J Med Sci Res 2016;7:87-8 |
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Yadav SP, Kathuria B, Hernot S, Malik JS. Spontaneous expulsion of vegetative foreign body (carrot piece) from the right main bronchus. Muller J Med Sci Res [serial online] 2016 [cited 2023 Mar 23];7:87-8. Available from: https://www.mjmsr.net/text.asp?2016/7/1/87/174673 |
Dear Editor,
Worldwide experiences of spontaneous expulsion of foreign body bronchus is unimaginable and quite rare, which range between 2% and 4%. [1] Bronchial aspiration is a much rarer and potentially life-threatening complication, requiring immediate intervention for its extraction. [2],[3]
The authors present the case of a 3-year-old female presented to the emergency department at midnight with a history of breathing difficulty, weak cry, and intermittent choking spell for last 3 h. She was brought by her parents who told that she developed respiratory difficulty while eating after an episode of vomiting. On examination, the baby was found to be tachypnoeic and restless. She was found to have stridor, wheeze, and decreased air entry with conductive sounds on the right side of chest. On the basis of history and physical examination, foreign body aspiration was suspected and a chest x-ray posteroanterior view was done, which revealed hyperinflation of the right lung [Figure 1], therapeutic bronchoscopy under general anesthesia was planned for the next day morning.
Next day morning, before the patient was taken to operation theatre, she had a severe bout of cough and expelled the foreign body carrot piece spontaneously. The foreign body measured 1 cm × 0.7 cm × 0.3 cm in size and was swollen and soften [Figure 2]. | Figure 2: Spontaneously expelled foreign body (carrot piece) measuring 1 cm × 0.7 cm × 0.3 cm
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On auscultation of chest air entry had markedly improved on right side. Thereafter, the patient had an uneventful recovery. The repeat x-ray chest done after 6 h revealed a reversal of radiological changes on the right lung [Figure 3].  | Figure 3: X-ray chest showing reversal of radiological changes of the right lung, 6 h after the spontaneous expulsion
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It is unwise and dangerous and unadvisable to wait for spontaneous expulsion in case of vegetative foreign body from the bronchus but while preparing for endoscopy, a constant watch should be kept over the patient, and every forceful bout of cough should be looked with suspicion of spontaneous expulsion [3],[4] and a danger of foreign body lodgement into the subglottis during such rare but possible occurrence should be kept in mind.
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| 2. | Yadav SP, Wig U, Raj B, Chawla RK, Yadav J. Unusual foreign body in air ways. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 1987;29:41-3. [ PUBMED] |
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| 4. | Mital OP, Prasad R, Singhal SK, Malika A, Singh PN. Spontaneous expulsion of a long standing endobronchial metallic foreign body. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 1979;21:45-7. |
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