RT Journal
A1 Young LW, Seibert RW, Seibert JJ
T1 RAdiological case of the month
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD July 1
VO 133
IS 7
SP 749
OP 750
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070085019
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070085019
AB A 16-month-old infant girl was transferred to Arkansas Childrens Hospital from an outlying clinic with a diagnosis of severe "asthma." For four weeks prior to admission, she had been followed up for recurrent right lower lobe "pneumonia" (Fig 1). One day prior to admission, severe stridor developed, and progressed to cyanosis and two respiratory arrests that abated with endotracheal intubation but stridor persisted. On admission, she was noted to have inspiratory stridor, with a prolonged expiratory phase. After failing to respond to the usual acute medical treatment of asthma, the patient was extubated and a soft-tissue lateral roentgenogram of the airway was taken (Fig 2).Denouement and Discussion 
    Tracheal Foreign Body: (An Almond) 
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