Aspiration of an unusual Foreign Body: A case report.

Abstract

Foreign body aspiration is an important cause of death in children, having a spectrum of presentations. Date seed aspiration is an unusual event and here we present a case of a 4-year-old child who was referred to our hospital after aspirating a date seed. 12 days prior to referral, the child aspirated the seed and had breathing difficulty and cough. The parents took the child to a hospital for examination and CT Virtual Bronchoscopy was done revealing FB in the right main bronchus at which point the child was referred to our hospital where bronchoscopy was done and the child recovered without any complication.