Incidental tracheobronchial aspiration of a ball pin in a healthy young professional basketball player - a case report

Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration is a rare condition in a healthy adult who has not any predisposing factors such as diminished mental status and oropharyngeal dysfunction. A variety of items including age, sex, nutritional habitus, socioeconomic level and geographical distribution determine...

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Published inMedicina Sportiva : Journal of Romanian Sports Medicine Society Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 1941
Main Authors Bananzadeh, Ali Mohammad, Moslemi, Sam, Tahamtan, Maryam, Taheri, Lohrasb
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bucharest Romanian Society of Sports Medicine 01.07.2012
Subjects
Health care
Mortality
Professional basketball
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Summary:Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration is a rare condition in a healthy adult who has not any predisposing factors such as diminished mental status and oropharyngeal dysfunction. A variety of items including age, sex, nutritional habitus, socioeconomic level and geographical distribution determines what is aspirated. The aspiration of an ever not reported object will open new horizons of concepts for preventing its following occurrence. A 21-year-old professional basketball player was referred to our center with a 20 hours history of cough and dyspnea after aspiration of a large ball pin. The PA and lateral views of chest X-ray revealed a metal aspirated object in the tracheobronchial tree. Therefore, rigid bronchoscopy was performed for removal of pin lodged in the distal portion of leftmain bronchus. No complication was occurred and patient was discharged after a few hours. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1841-0162