BRONCHOGENIC CYST IN INFANCY, CAUSING RESPIRATORY OBSTRUCTION

The management is bronehoscopic examination and removal of the foreign body. Apart from meat and fish bones, we have encounteredwood, teeth, broken dental plate, Norfolk Island pine, barley grass, a nail, a button and a peanut. It is not the purposeof this paperto describethe many little tricks associatedwith the endoscopic removal of theseobjects,many of which have a diameterhalf as large again as the bronchoscope.Sutllce to say that once they are out recovery is rapid and in most casescomplete.