Abstract
A study was made on the foreign body in bronchus observed recently in Nippon Medical College. They are 3 needles, 1 nail, 1 piece of food particle, 1 artificial tooth and 2 pencil caps.As to the location of the foreign bodies, 10 cases were in right bronchus and 1 case in left bronchus.The illustrations of each case is shown and the progress of the cases and the technic of extraction of the pencil cap, peanuts and a hook are described.In the case of peanut foreign body, the patient was first seen by us on the 11th day of the aspiration and had already complications of pyothorax and athelectasis of the lung.
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