Bezmialem Vakif University, Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ital J Pediatr. 2012 May 11;38:17. doi: 10.1186/1824-7288-38-17.
Foreign body aspiration continues to be a serious problem in childhood and adolescent period with significant rate of morbidity and rarely mortality. Half of the foreign body aspiration cases have no history of aspiration. The main foreign bodies inhaled are food fragments and different kinds of metallic objects. A 12-year-old girl was referred to the pediatric pulmonology department for chronic cough and hemoptysis. She had persistent infiltration and cavitary lesion mimicking cavitary tuberculosis. There was no contact history with tuberculosis in her family and acid resistant bacillus was not found in the sputum examination. Flexible bronchoscopy was performed for persistent infiltration and hemoptysis and inflamed thread was found in right lower lobe bronchus. This is the first case of thread inhalation mimicking cavitary tuberculosis in an adolescent patient.
异物吸入仍然是儿童和青少年时期的一个严重问题，发病率高，死亡率低。一半的异物吸入病例没有吸入史。吸入的主要异物是食物碎片和各种金属物体。一名 12 岁女孩因慢性咳嗽和咯血被转至儿科肺病科。她持续浸润和有空洞病变，类似于空洞性肺结核。她的家族没有肺结核接触史，痰检也未发现抗酸杆菌。由于持续浸润和咯血，进行了软性支气管镜检查，发现右下叶支气管有发炎的线。这是首例青少年患者线吸入模仿空洞性肺结核的病例。
