Can inhaled foreign body mimic asthma in an adolescent?

A 14 year old male was diagnosed with asthma but didn't improve with appropriate inhalation therapy. Rigid bronchoscopy revealed a food fragment, almost completely occluding the lower-left bronchus lumen. Based on the reported history, it had been likely there for several years.

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Autores principales: Bodini, Alessandro, Pecoraro, Luca, Catalano, Filippo, Aricò, Melodie Olivia, Tenero, Laura, Piazza, Michele, Piacentini, Giorgio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774614
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.38.20037
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author Bodini, Alessandro
Pecoraro, Luca
Catalano, Filippo
Aricò, Melodie Olivia
Tenero, Laura
Piazza, Michele
Piacentini, Giorgio
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spelling pubmed-73886042020-08-07 Can inhaled foreign body mimic asthma in an adolescent? Bodini, Alessandro Pecoraro, Luca Catalano, Filippo Aricò, Melodie Olivia Tenero, Laura Piazza, Michele Piacentini, Giorgio Pan Afr Med J Case Report A 14 year old male was diagnosed with asthma but didn't improve with appropriate inhalation therapy. Rigid bronchoscopy revealed a food fragment, almost completely occluding the lower-left bronchus lumen. Based on the reported history, it had been likely there for several years. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7388604/ /pubmed/32774614 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.38.20037 Text en © Alessandro Bodini et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Can inhaled foreign body mimic asthma in an adolescent?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774614
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.38.20037
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