A case of traumatic intrapulmonary foreign body
Tatsumi, A.; Hanaoka, S.; Yamamoto, Y.; Nakamura, T.; Kitamura, F.; Miyamoto, N.
Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 47(3): 242-244
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252 PMID: 8114397 Document Number: 429790
A case of 60-year-old man with traumatic intrapulmonary foreign body that was not inhaled, but through the chest wall was described. In July 1992 a grass cutter was working in a forestry with a circular saw when he was struck into the right lung. He had a sharp pain in the anterior chest. No abnormality was seen in front of his neck and the chest wall. The next month he developed a cough with bloody sputum. The chest X-ray showed a metallic foreign body at the right side of manubrium. Computed tomogram showed a steel wire fragment lodging beside the innominate artery and vein and in the right lung. Median sternotomy was performed and a foreign body was successfully removed with partial resection of upper lobe.