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A sunflower seed foreign body aspiration misdiagnosed as pneumonia in a child after tetralogy of Fallot operation: A case report.

Sang Ngoc NguyenTai Trong VuBach HoangHa Thai NguyenChuc Van Dang
Published in: Clinical case reports (2023)
Approaching a child with dyspnea, coughing, and wheezing, doctors must consider a foreign body in the respiratory tract, and bronchoscopy should be performed. This report described a child having sunflower seed aspiration late- and misdiagnosed as pneumonia. He failed with antibiotics therapy. The patient underwent a bronchoscopy, and then the seed was found and entirely removed.
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