The Missing Tooth: A Curious Case of Postobstructive Pneumonia

Foreign body aspirations that are not recognized at the time of aspiration can lead to insidious symptoms that can present a diagnostic challenge. We report the case of a 70-year-old man presenting with postobstructive pneumonia 2 months after aspirating his own tooth during a meal. He had been mist...

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Autores principales: Holmes, Ian, Gajurel, Kiran, Montoya, Jose
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27419162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw088
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description Foreign body aspirations that are not recognized at the time of aspiration can lead to insidious symptoms that can present a diagnostic challenge. We report the case of a 70-year-old man presenting with postobstructive pneumonia 2 months after aspirating his own tooth during a meal. He had been mistakenly diagnosed with asthma and treated with bronchodilators before a computed tomography scan of the thorax revealed the impacted tooth in his left bronchus. We review the clinical features and microbiology of postobstructive pneumonia and discuss the rationale of its treatment.
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spelling pubmed-49435402016-07-14 The Missing Tooth: A Curious Case of Postobstructive Pneumonia Holmes, Ian Gajurel, Kiran Montoya, Jose Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Foreign body aspirations that are not recognized at the time of aspiration can lead to insidious symptoms that can present a diagnostic challenge. We report the case of a 70-year-old man presenting with postobstructive pneumonia 2 months after aspirating his own tooth during a meal. He had been mistakenly diagnosed with asthma and treated with bronchodilators before a computed tomography scan of the thorax revealed the impacted tooth in his left bronchus. We review the clinical features and microbiology of postobstructive pneumonia and discuss the rationale of its treatment. Oxford University Press 2016-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4943540/ /pubmed/27419162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw088 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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