Foreign Body Aspiration in the Left Bronchial Tree: Apropos of Two Cases

Abstract

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event. The most common site of aspiration is the right main bronchus. We present the cases of two patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse, both with foreign bodies logded in the left upper lobar bronchus (ULB) probabily aspirated during a period of unconsciousness, immediately after drug injection. We believe that the position in which individuals were injected was possibly related to the location of the object.




J Med Cases. 2018;9(4):112-113
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc3025w