Epidemiology
- Major cause of death in children (2000 deaths per year annually in USA)
Physiology
- Foreign body lodged in trachea or bronchus (usually right mainstem bronchus)
Clinical
- Cough (see Cough)
- Tracheobronchial Obstruction (see Obstructive Lung Disease)
- Diagnosis
- FOB: indicated urgently to rule out foreign body if suspected
- Clinical
- Dyspnea
- Wheezing: may be localized over area of obstruction
- Diagnosis
- Hemoptysis (see Hemoptysis)
- Post-Obstructive Atelectasis/Pneumonia/Bronchiectasis (see Atelectasis, [[Atelectasis]], Pneumonia, and Bronchiectasis)
Treatment
- Bronchoscopic removal
- Rigid bronchoscopic removal
- Surgical removal
References
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