Abstract
Since July 1974, we have encountered 19 cases of tracheo-bronchial foreign bodies. In this article, we reported five cases which were unusual and interesting. The first case was a 14 month old boy who had aspirated a 4cm long boiled locust into the right bronchus. The secondd case was a 15 month old boy who had aspirated a 1cm2 alminuim paper into the subgottic space. The third case was a 17 year old boy who had aspirated a 7cm long wooden ice cream stick into the trachea. The forth case was a 67 year old man who had aspirated a silicon T-tube into the main bronchus. The fifth case was a 37 year old man who had aspirated a false tooth into the right bronchus. These cases were classified with reference to the following five criteria: (1) nature of the foreign body, (2) clinical course, (3) presence or absence of iatrogenic origin, (4) route of aspiration, and (5) motive.
