Case Report
Year: 2019 | Month: January-March | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 51-53
An Unusual Foreign Body Aspiration in a Child: A Case Report
Dr. Ankit Goyal1, Dr. Naveen Shukla2
1Senior Resident, Department of E.N.T, Shridev Suman Subharti Medical College, Dehradun, India.
2Assistant Professor, Department of E.N.T, Shridev Suman Subharti Medical College, Dehradun, India.
Corresponding Author: Dr. Ankit Goyal
ABSTRACT
Foreign body aspiration is an important and preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in children. FBA can result in a spectrum of presentations ranging from incidental to acutely life threatening. In the literature, numerous unique foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree have been reported. Here, we present case of a 2 yrs old child who presented to us with respiratory distress. Based on history and examination diagnosis of a foreign body aspiration was made and an emergency diagnostic rigid bronchoscopy was done retrieving the bulb from left main bronchus.
Keywords: Foreign body aspiration, respiratory distress.