[ rare case of the long time presence of a half meter wire in bronchus of a 38-year-old patient]

Aspiration of foreign body into the bronchus is one the emergency problems, which emergency measures are required for its removal. This problem is frequently occurs in children and in the sixth decade of life in patients with an underlying disease, and patients presents with a history of sudden choking and coughing following swallowing. The patient is a 38-year-old male without a history of diseases who had referred since 13 years ago after swallowing a metal zipper, without any symptoms at the time of aspiration. After several hospitalizations and receiving many antibiotics and the diagnosis of pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and lack of appropriate, he was suspected for the presence of a foreign body, and a half meter metal wire was removed from his right bronchus by flexible bronchoscopy in two stages after general anesthesia.