Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies in Our Clinic

Abstract

We reported 81 cases of foreign bodies in the air way between 1971 and 1990 in our clinic. Most of the cases were infants around one year old.
Most of them were male. The foreign body most often detected was peanuts. The foreign bodies were more frequently found in the right bronchus. Careful history taking, auscultation and radiography allowed diagnosis prior to bronchoscopy in most of the cases. Bronchoscopy failed to detect foreign bodies in 31 cases.