Nine years of life of a child with a foreign body in the lower lobe of the left lung

Abstract

In pediatric practice, children from time to time encounter foreign bodies in the respiratory tract. With a typical history of the disease in combination with early childhood, diagnosis and treatment of the disease does not present any particular difficulties. In this clinical case, the diagnosis of the disease was complicated by the absence of the mother during the period of foreign body aspiration, the presence of a family history of a relative with bronchial asthma, concomitant food allergies of the child, manifestations of seborrheic dermatitis and repeated episodes of acute obstructive laryngitis in the history. The administration of bronchodilators and inhaled glucocorticosteroids gave a short-term effect. The foreign body was not radiopaque. Unfortunately, the child could not save the lower lobe of the left lung. During surgery, more than 100 ml of pus was removed along with the foreign body. If there is doubt about the correctness of the diagnosis, multispiral contrast computer diagnostics of the lungs and diagnostic bronchoscopy should be prescribed.