Abstract |
A 2 year-old boy was presented with wheezing, cough and stridor for 1 1/2 months. The analysis of arterial blood sample disclosed PO2, 44 mmHg and PCO2, 58 mmHg. The diagnostic procedures, chest radiography including inspiratory, expiratory and lateral decubitus views and Tc-99m-MAA lung perfusion scintigraphy, were performed, on the presumptive diagnosis of foreign body aapiration. At bronchoscopy, a foregin body (fish vertebra), partially occluding the left main bronchus from 1 cm below carina, was removed. |