Unsuspected Pulmonary Foreign Body

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Abstract
COUGH, hemoptysis and weight loss in a middle-aged man immediately raise a strong suspicion of pulmonary carcinoma, tuberculosis being the most important alternate diagnosis. Suppuration in parenchymal tissue distal to bronchi blocked by neoplasm is a common complication. Persistent parenchymal densities on films of the chest remain the most consistently accurate diagnostic tool for carcinoma of the lung,1 , 2 and the majority of patients subjected to curative resection for pulmonary carcinoma undergo thoracotomy on the basis of radiographic findings without tissue diagnosis.In the case presented below, the patient was operated upon with a presumptive diagnosis of carcinoma associated with pneumonitis. . . .

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