Valdés RMF, Rodríguez CJP, González MA, Ornia GMM, Lorenzo GJD

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ABSTRACT

Background: The strange intrathoracic object usually enter to the organism for aspiration through the air ways and they can be extracted by bronchoscopy. It is not very usual make it through the skin, except when it is penetrating lesions in thorax. Presentation: 39 years old patient, with antecedents of health, driver, with a metallic strange object that penetrates when mobilizing the whip. It begins with cough, thoracic pain and hemoptysis, seen by the General Surgery service, arriving to the diagnosis of intrathoracic lesion for metallic strangeobject, confirmed with imaginologic studies. It was surgically intervenes through thoracoscopy, it was not possible to locate the exact location of the strange object. At the present time the patient stays asymptomatic. The novelty of the case is the unusual thing that it is the accidental penetration of a strange object in the thorax without serious complications. Conclusions: The strange intrathoracic object can remain without complications, neither functional limitations in some patients. The diagnosis is clinical and imaginologic. The treatment should be the less possible invasive, being of election the bronchoscopy and the thoracic surgery video-assisted.

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