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- Ugur Cinar, Cetin Vural, and Suat Turgut.
- Department of Otolaryngology, Sisli Etfal Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. u_cinar@yahoo.com
- Eur J Emerg Med. 2003 Dec 1;10(4):334-6.
AbstractLaryngotracheal foreign bodies, although less common than bronchial foreign bodies, are potentially more dangerous. We report a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome with asthma bronchiale symptoms, which was later found to be the result of a thin bone lamella impacted in her larynx. There was no clear history of foreign body aspiration. She was treated with the initial diagnosis of asthma bronchiale. It took a month before the final diagnosis was made. The foreign body was removed via direct laryngoscopy. It was a white and thin bone lamella with sharp edges, measuring 28 x 19 x 2 mm. We thought the case was worth presenting because of its rare location, the size of the foreign body, and the long duration before the final diagnosis was made.
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