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Emergency casebook
Not the typical winter cough
  1. G Parra Sanchez,
  2. Govind Chetty,
  3. Pradip K Sarkar
  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr G Parra Sanchez
 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK; griller80{at}hotmail.com

Abstract

We report on a young adult with a foreign body lodged in the right main bronchus for at least 5 days, with no alleged recollection of aspiration despite the size and shape of the object, which was removed successfully by rigid bronchoscopy.

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.040774

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    • Competing interests: None declared.

    • Informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of his details in this paper.