氣管及び氣管支異物症例

　緒言

　種々の動機に依り異物が気管並に気管支内に迷入する事は，従来多数報告せられて居るが，一般に吸引に依つて異物が声門を通つて気管より気管支に達するものが其の大部分を占めて居る．私は最近僅か5ケ月の乳児に於て長さ5.5cmの杉の葉の気管異物1例，及び9才の小児に於て鉛筆の鞘の先端を左側気管支内に吸ひ込み，摘出時更に右側気管支に落下せしものを摘出して救助し得た1例を経験したのでこゝに報告したいと思ふ．

YAMAMOTO reports two cases of tracheo-bron chial foreign bodies. An infant aged 5 months swallowed a bristly leaf of a tree which the mother tried to extricate it with her fingers and during this process the object was forced further inwards through the larynx and into the trachea. Removal of the foreign body was effected by resorting to tracheotomy.

A boy aged 9 years accidently swallowed a metal pencil cover (0.9X 1.7cm) which was left bronchus remaining in this condition for 8 days before he was brought to consultion. The foreign body was removed with bronchoscopy under general anesthesia, but, during the first attempt it accidently slipped and fell then into the right bronchus.