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01.12.2006 | Clinical Image
Alternate lung collapse in a 9-year-old boy with peanut aspiration
Erschienen in: Pediatric Radiology | Ausgabe 12/2006
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A 9-year-old boy presented to our Emergency Department with a 1-day history of cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. He had choked on a peanut the day before. The chest radiograph revealed right lung collapse (Fig. 1). An airway foreign body was suspected and rigid bronchoscopy was planned. While waiting for the operation, sudden-onset cyanosis was noted after several episodes of stress coughing. Emergent intubation was performed and a chest radiograph obtained 6 h after the initial examination showed total left lung collapse (Fig. 2). At emergent rigid bronchoscopy a peanut was seen impacted in the orifice of the left main bronchus.
Fig. 1
Initial chest radiograph
Fig. 2
Chest radiograph at 6 h
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