Abstract
A Foreign Body (FB) in airway tract remains a serious and fatal event if not managed properly in time. We present in this case report a result of management of a gross subcutaneous emphysema following inhalation of peanut at a 6 year old girl who consulted our hospital with symptomatology of pneumonia following inhalation of foreign body type peanut seven days earlier. During her hospitalization, she developed a gross subcutaneous emphysema which was managed using subclavicular subcutaneous incision for aspiration associated on antibiotics, oxygen therapy and chest physiotherapy. The condition resolved within fifteen days. Bronchoscopy remains the good approach to remove and to prevent the complications of inhalator foreign body.
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