• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: A child with a foreign body in bronchus misdiagnosed as asthma
  • Contributor: Chaudhary, Nagendra; Shrestha, Sandeep; Kurmi, Om P.
  • Published: Wiley, 2020
  • Published in: Clinical Case Reports, 8 (2020) 12, Seite 2409-2413
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.3153
  • ISSN: 2050-0904
  • Keywords: General Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Foreign body ingestion should be considered as an important differential in a child with difficult asthma. We report an 11‐year‐old male child with foreign body aspiration who initially was diagnosed and treated as difficult asthma. Later on, he was diagnosed to have a foreign body in the right bronchus, which was successfully removed by flexible bronchoscopy.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access