1. الرحيم الرحمن هللا بسم
Pin Aspiration
Prof. Abdulsalam Y Taha
College of Medicine
University of Sulaimani
2022
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2. The Case
A teenager girl aspirated a pin
into the left main stem
bronchus (LMB). The pin was
visible on plain CXR. It was
retrieved via fiberoptic
bronchoscopy under local
anesthesia. The patient was
discharged home on the same
day.
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7. Comment
The headscarf is a kind of head cover, worn
for religious intentions. In Islamic
countries, girls start to wear a headscarf
with the onset of puberty and sometimes
even earlier. The head scarf pins are used
for attaching the layers of the headscarf to
each other in order to keep it in a steady
position around the head. The aspiration
takes place when the straight pin is held in
the mouth. This recently recognized
aspiration hazard can be minimized using
adhesive bands or snap fasteners, instead of
pins when wearing a headscarf.
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8. Comment
This case was reported in our article titled [Taha, A.
(2013) The use of fiberoptic bronchoscope to remove
aspirated tracheobronchial foreign bodies: Our
experience. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 2, 285-
290. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2013.25077]
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