A 8-month-old female infant was brought to the hospital at midnight with difficulty breathing and drooling saliva after choking on a foreign body. Examination found coarse crackling in both lungs. X-ray of the chest was normal. During direct laryngoscopy under light anesthesia, a hair clipper was found in the infant's hypopharynx and was removed with forceps. A rigid bronchoscopy was also performed to clear aspirated secretions from the bronchial tree.

1. ‫الرحيم‬ ‫الرحمن‬ ‫هللا‬ ‫بسم‬
Hair Clipper in
Hypopharynx
Prof. Abdulsalam Y Taha
College of Medicine
University of Sulaimani
2022

2. The Case
An 8 months old female infant
referred at midnight with a history
suggestive of foreign body ingestion.
The mother described chocking
episode. The child was moderately
dyspnoic with drooling of saliva.
Chest auscultation revealed coarse
crackles bilaterally.

3. The Case…
 CXR was normal. Direct
laryngoscopy under light GA via a
mask showed the FB (a hair
clipper) in the hypopharynx;
extracted by Magill forceps. Rigid
bronchoscopy was also done to
clean the bronchial tree from the
aspirated secretions.

5. The Hair Clipper