There are many circumstances in which the diagnosis of endobronchial inhalation of a foreign body (FB) can be missed. Generally, in such cases, within weeks or at most months from the event, clinical bronchopulmonary symptoms develop which allow a correct diagnosis to be made and significant complications to be avoided. We report the case of a patient in whom an endobronchial FB remained undiag...

It is very rare to have a big foreign body in the lungs without any complications or symptoms for 2 years. A 14-year-old male with episodes of minor hemoptysis for 4 weeks had a history of inhalation of a bullet 2 years earlier. He had asymptomatic for lung complications for 2 years. The bullet was removed by right thoracotomy and  non-anatomical wedge stapled resection, and he followed an unev...

clearly. I inserted a forceps and removed the foreign body ; it was a butterfly. A few drops of blood followed, but it was soon stopped. 2. A Hindu male child, aged 12 months, was brought to me with bleeding of the nose. The father of the child said that the boy had been putting his finger in the nose since last night, owing to which there had been bleeding. I examined the nose, but could not s...

An 87-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with frequent vomiting, dysphagia and appetite loss lasting for three days. She rejected solid food, although she was able to drink water. No fever, cough, or dyspnea was observed. She had been bedridden for eight years, as a result of a subarachnoid hemorrhage and was therefore unable to communicate. A physical examination revealed salivary ret...

Ocular injuries of sufficient severity to necessitate admission to the Eye and Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, were sustained by 1707 male patients and 325 female patients. Blunt injury occurred in 1063 eyes (49.2%), perforating injury in 1037 (48%), and intraocular or intraorbital foreign bodies in 181 eyes (8.4%). More than three-quarters of the patients (77.4%) were less than 3...