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Foreign body inhalation: a nut in the tree

Stefan Buchholz and George R Rudan
Med J Aust 2008; 189 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02223.x
Published online: 1 December 2008

A 69-year-old man presented with a 3-week history of intermittent interscapular dull ache, complicated by small volume haemoptysis. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the thorax showed no evidence of pulmonary embolism, but demonstrated a well circumscribed lesion, 10 mm in diameter, in the right bronchial tree (Figure, A), leading to suspicion of a neoplasm. Using flexible bronchoscopy, we successfully removed a whole macadamia nut (Figure, B) that was obstructing the bronchus intermedius at the level of the right middle lobe orifice.


  • 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Nambour General Hospital, Nambour, QLD.
  • 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Manly District Hospital, Sydney, NSW.


Correspondence: stefanbuchholz@hotmail.com

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