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April 2014 Vol. 2 No. 4

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Merit Research Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (ISSN: 2354-3238) Vol. 2(4) pp. 078-080, April, 2014

Case Report

An interesting cause of atelectasis: Pill aspiration presenting like a bronchial tumour

Toru Ümran

Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Kütahya, Turkey

E-mail: umran_toru_81@hotmail.com

Accepted April 24, 2013

Abstract

Foreign body aspiration is uncommon in adults and aspirated foreign bodies can mimic bronchial tumours in rare cases. This is a report of a 78-years old female patient presented with pill aspiration, which was mimicking a bronchial tumour in fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

Keywords: Atelectasis, Foreign body, Aspiration, Bronchial tumour