XXXIV. Report of a Case of Foreign Body (Carpet Tack) Remaining Two Years in Bronchial Tube without Pathologic Symptoms

Eldredge : Commis. to Rhode Island Med. So., 186—I—82. Foreign body in air passages twenty-three years.

Jackson : Boston M. & S. Jl., 1855—LIII—510. Screw, three years.

Rose : Prov. Med. & Surg. Jl., Lond., 1854—VI—465. Foreign body expelled nine and one-half years after.

Stone : Clinical Cases, 1878—p. 44. Screw expelled three years later.

Whitley : Tr. Med. Ass., Ga., 1878—XXIX—240. Cockleburr in lungs twelve years; death.

Woolsey : Nashville Jl. Med. & Surg., 1880—XXV—103. Cockleburr in bronchus eleven years; expectorated.

Smith M. A. B. : Maritime Med. News, 1899—XI—19. Foreign body in lungs eight years.

Beer : (J. Am. M. Ass.), March 4, 1916, p. 739. Removed a paper clip by superior bronchoscopy which had been in the bronchus seventeen years.

Jackson (Am. Otol., Rhinol. and Laryngol., June, 1913): Removed a collar button twenty-six years after aspiration.

Walters : Cal. State Jr. of Med., January, 1918, p. 42. Piece of bone in lung eleven years removed by bronchoscopy.

Packard : Laryngoscope, December, 1916. Piece of tracheotomy tube in lung six years; removed.

Schwarz : Migration of Aspirated Foreign Bodies in the Lungs. Beiträge z. klin. chirurgie, 1914—XCV—p. 74.

I. Long piece of iron, aspirated two years, migrated to the diaphragm-rib angle, removed by thoracotomy.

Hutchinson Jno. : Godlee's paper: Discussion. Pro. Royal Med. Chir., So. London, 1895–6—VIII—170. Piece of vegetable ivory in lung seven years; bronchiectasis.

Richards : J. Am. M. Ass., 1915—LXV—July 17, p. 238. Tack in bronchus; no history—evidently aspirated many years before. Removal by bronchoscopy.

Tilley : Pro. Royal So. Med., 1910–1911—IV— Section on Laryngology, p. 96. Rabbit bone in right bronchus over three years.

Burch Lake : Lancet, 1897—II—784 (table). Bone in right bronchus over eight years.

Colquhoun : Austral. Med. Jl., 1886—VIII—489. Pin expelled from lung after sixteen years.

Jova : Med. Record, 1899—LVI—514. A tack in the lung for seven years.

Cases from Gross' “Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages,” 1854.

Flint (personal report to Gross): Brass trunk nail expelled nearly three years after accident.

North: Trans. Med. & Chirurg. So., London, 1812—III—1. Shot expelled six years after aspiration.

Herrick : Am. Jl. Med. Sci., N. S., XIII. Fishbone expelled two years after aspiration.

Duncan : Northern Jl. Med., August, 1845. Piece of bone expelled over four years aftr aspiration.

Gridley : American Med. Recorder, Vol. XIII—173. Lead pencil expelled six years after aspiration.

Walther : Journal der chirurgie (Am. Med. Rec., VI—571). Claw of crawfish expelled seven yars after aspiration.

Walther : Provincial Med. Jl., September, 1843. Beechmast expelled nine and one-half years after aspiration.

Bartlett : Lee's N. Y. Jl. of Med., VI—23—1846. Man sixty-three years old expelled bone aspirated sixty years before.

Desauls' Surgical Works. Smith Transl., 1814—I—-222. Cherrystone—death two years after accident.

Struthers : Dublin Med. Press, November 24, 1852. Bone—death four and one-half years later.

Lescure : Mem. de l'aca. royale de chirurgie, 1819—I—31. Coin—death five and one-half years.

Dupuytren : Lecons orales, 1833—III—584. Coin—death, ten years.

Carpenter : Grey's Hospital Reports, 1842—VII—353. Teeth—death, thirteen years.

McGaughey (report to Gross): Cockleburr coughed up two and one-half years after aspiration.

Abercromble : Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jl., 1834—XLII—105. Artificial tooth expelled over two and one-half years after aspiration.

Lescure : Mem. de l'acad. royale de chirurgie, V. 354. Bone expelled seventeen years after aspiration.

Pelletan : Clinique chirurgicale, 1810—I—12. Piece of woolen cloth expelled several years after aspiration.

Andreyeff : Feldschr., 1896—VI—376. Foreign body in bronchus five years.

Stadelmann : Cited by Garré and Quincke. Foreign body in lung six years.

Killian : Cited by Garré and Quincke. Needle in lung ten years, suddenly caused hemoptysis.

Von Schrötter : Bronchoskopie, 1906, case 62. Piece of bone in bronchus about three years.

Tulpius : Opera lib. II, obs. VII. Piece of walnut shell, seven years.

Hochsteterus : Obs. decad VI, cap X. Coin, two years.

Gaetan : Soc. anat. pathol., t. I. Nail in bronchus two years.

Godlee : Med. Chirurg. Trans., 1896—LXXIX—197. Peg of peg top, seven and one-half years; ivory knob, three years; tooth, three years, d. tuberculosis.

Hayes : Memphis Jl. Med. Sci., 1889–1890—I—266. Foreign body coughed up after two years.

Reclam : Gesundheit, 1876–7—II—227. Needle, fourteen years.