Unusual foreign bodies

An injection needle as a foreign body in the trachea resulting from asthma inhalation therapy

“…Ten adult cases were drug addicts. The remaining case was a child whose father was diabetic: the child inhaled a needle during play 10 . There has been no previous report of an incident such as that presented herein.…”

“…Radiopaque materials are rare; however, a sewing needle, 3 scarf pins, 4 nail, 5 screw 6 and stylet, 7 have occasionally been reported. To our knowledge, in the English literature, there have been 11 cases in which a hypodermic needle has become lodged in the airway 8–10 . Ten adult cases were drug addicts.…”