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Inadvertent removal of foreign body via a flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope in a 4-year-old boy
1Department of Pulmonology and Pediatrics, EHS Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL 60453.
Pediatric Pulmonology
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report the case of a 4-year-old child with an atypical presentation of an aspirated unwitnessed foreign body in the airway. During an attempt to obtain a biopsy of what appeared to be a mucosal growth, the foreign body was removed. This may be the first report of foreign body removal in a child this young, using a flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope.