Abstract
Aim: Describe the difficulties of treating an inhaled foreign body in a resource-limited country.
 It was a 6-year-old girl who was brought to an ENT specialist for persistent cough for 2 months after the notion of foreign body inhalation. We report the therapeutic circuit that led to a lobectomy after endoscopic failures.
Highlights
Bronchopulmonary foreign bodies are common in children and are generally secondary to accidental inhalation
Aim: Describe the difficulties of treating an inhaled foreign body in a resource-limited country. It was a 6-year-old girl who was brought to an ENT specialist for persistent cough for 2 months after the notion of foreign body inhalation
We report the therapeutic circuit that led to a lobectomy after endoscopic failures
Summary
Bronchopulmonary foreign bodies are common in children and are generally secondary to accidental inhalation. Inhalation of an intra-bronchial foreign body remains a serious accident, especially in young children. Some neglected or unknown foreign bodies destroy the pulmonary territories concerned by air isolation and by accumulation of secretions [1, 2] In these situations, surgery becomes inevitable [1, 3, 4]
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