Foreign bodies in right intermediate bronchus: Case report on early and late diagnosis

Ramana Prasad VV, Kiran Kumar Reddy P

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 Ramana Prasad VV^1,* and Kiran Kumar Reddy P¹

¹Department of Pulmonology, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. V.V. Ramana Prasad, MBBS, DTCD, Consultant Pulmonologist, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India. Email: ramanaprasadv@yahoo.co.in

Received 18 October 2013; Revised 21 December 2013; Accepted 28 December 2013

Citation: Ramana Prasad VV, Kiran Kumar Reddy P. Foreign bodies in right intermediate bronchus: Case report on early and late diagnosis. J Med Sci Res 2014; 2(1):17-20. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-003

Copyright: © 2014 Ramana Prasad VV et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Foreign body (FB) aspiration is an uncommon problem in adults. About 80 percent of reported cases occur in children under 15 years of age. Foreign body aspiration can be an emergent life-threatening condition, if the aspirated object is large enough to cause complete airway obstruction. We reported 2 cases that clinical suspicion, early diagnosis and removal of foreign body (FB) gives dramatic clinical improvement as happened in the first patient, where as lack of suspicion and delayed diagnosis have led to lobectomy in second patient. This could have been prevented if it is identified early in child hood itself.

Keywords: Foreign body; Bronchoscopy; Lobectomy