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Surgical Management for Incidental Finding of an Intrapulmonary Foreign Body - A case report  

Ko, Moo-Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
Lee, Sub (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
Park, Ki-Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.39, no.3, 2006 , pp. 248-250 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 48-years-old woman was visited to our hospital because of incidental finding of intrapulmonary foreign body. Chest X-ray showed a 4cm sized foreign body in left upper lung field without adjacent fibrosis. Chest CT showed a sewing needle shaped foreign body of metallic density, located in the 113ft upper lobe. The foreign bodies including the needle were removed surgically using a wedge resection. The extracted needle was divided into three 4 cm pieces. Patient was discharged without other respiratory symptoms after surgery. We report a case of wedge resection in a patient with intrapulmonary needle in the left upper lobe, with review of literatures.
Keywords
Foreign bodies; Needles; Lung;
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