Medical Must-See: Doctors finally wrap up foreign body aspiration case after 11 years

A moment on the lips, 11 years in the left main bronchus.
Piece of lolly wrapper removed from left main bronchus.

An inhaled lolly wrapper led to a decade-long cough in this rare case of foreign body aspiration involving a middle-aged woman.

The patient, a teacher in her 50s, presented to a Tanzanian hospital’s infectious diseases department with shortness of breath, chronic cough and “foul-smelling suppurative sputum”.