興味ある氣管支並に食道異物例に就いて

　緒言

　小兒の異物症は我領域に於ては決して尠い疾患ではないが，就中下氣道及び食道異物症はその病因に於て，又その経過或は症状に於て頗る複雜奇異の樣相を呈するものがあり内科，小兒科医は勿論專門医と雖も充分なる注意を拂わないと往々誤診するものである．余等は最近正に此の言に相当する樣な興味ある経過をとつた氣管支及び食道異物症の各1例を経驗したので茲に報告し諸賢の御參考に資せんとするものである．

Kubo and his associates report two cases of foreign bodies that of bronchus and esophagus repectively which occurred in infant patients. In one of them, a male infant 2 years and 7 months of age, a sewing needle which was ac-cidently swallowed was located in the right bronchus. Removal of the needle under bron-choscopy was unsuccessfully performed in that the needle had shifted its position into deeper parts of the bronchus and was without the line of vision. Ten days after the initial incidence of swallowing the patient developed symptoms of aspiration pneumonia but concurrently, the presence of the needle was discovered at the eighth intercostal space pos eriorly in line with the scapula. It was then easily removed through simple skin incision. The other case was that of a girl infant 18 months of age who, with congenital esophageal stricture, swallowed two separate of foreign bodies on different occasions without the least knowledge of its parents and apparently from the history given the presence of the condition was of 6 months standing. Removal of these foreign bodies were suc-cessfully performed under esophaguscopy.