Unusual Bronchial Foreign Bodies with Localized Bronchiectasis in Five Children

Table 1

Clinical data of the five patients.

	Sex/age	Basic disease	Symptoms	Sign	CT	Nature of FB	Site of retention	Period of retention	Bronchographic finding	Prognosis
Case 1	M/15 m’	No	Recurrent cough and wheeze for five months	Wheezing sound in the left lung	Emphysema and bronchiectasis in the left lower lobe	Sunflower seed	Basal segment of the left lower lobe	Five months	Foreign body in the left lower lung with granulation tissue formation	Bronchiectasis basically disappeared in the repeated CT after 5 months
Case 2	M/13 y	No	Cough for seven days and hemoptysis for one day	No positive sign	Inflammation and bronchiectasis in the right lower lobe	Nut	B10 segment of the right lower lobe	Unknown	Foreign body in the right lower lung along with granulation tissue formation	Chest X-ray was normal after two months
Case 3	M/7y	Pachygyria and epilepsy	Fever for eight days and cough for five days	Coarse breath sounds in both lungs	Inflammation and partial bronchiectasis in the left lower lobe	Teeth	Basal segment of the left lower lobe	Unknown	Foreign body in the left lower lung along with granulation tissue formation	Bronchiectasis basically disappeared in the repeated CT after 6 months
Case 4	M/25 m	No	Cough and fever for twelve days	Wet rales in both lungs	Inflammation and bronchiectasis in the right middle and lower lobe	Nut	Right main bronchus	Unknown	Foreign body in the right main bronchus	Bronchiectasis basically disappeared in the repeated CT after 1 month
Case 5	F/10 y	No	Recurrent cough and fever for two months	Right lung breathing sound decreased	Bronchiectasis in the posterior basal segment of the right lower lobe	Tapioca pearl	Basal segment of the right lower lobe	Two months	A spherical foreign body in the right lower lung.	She almost had no fever or cough in recent three years and refused to have X-ray examination