TY  - JOUR
T1  - RAdiological case of the month
AU  - Young LW, Seibert RW, Seibert JJ
Y1  - 1979/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070085019
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 749
EP  - 750
VL  - 133
IS  - 7
N2  - 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) 
    This case of a tracheal foreign body (an almond) illustrates the treacherous nature of a foreign body at this site, especially one that can move from one part of the tracheobronchial tree to another. Our patient experienced two respiratory arrests that were due to the
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070085019
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070085019
ER  -