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We\u00a0report a rare case of a FB discovered in the\u00a0left main bronchus of an adult male admitted to the intensive care unit.\n                    <jats:bold>Case report:<\/jats:bold>\n                    A 52-year-old male smoker with COPD\u00a0presented to the emergency department with a two-day history of increasing dyspnea and cough. He was hypoxic and febrile with a temperature of 38\u00b0C. Auscultation revealed decreased breath sounds over the left lung and a few rhonchi on the right side. Chest x-ray showed left lung collapse. His condition rapidly worsened, and he was immediately intubated for acute respiratory failure. CT chest identified a large endobronchial mass\u00a0obstructing the left main bronchus. Flexible bronchoscopy confirmed a soft and mobile brownish lesion in the left main bronchus. The histological appearance\u00a0of the specimen retrieved was consistent with an organic foreign body. This was later identified as a melon chunk. It was removed successfully via flexible bronchoscopy by cutting it into smaller pieces to aid retrieval.\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>\n                    FB aspiration can occur in all age groups but is less common in adults accounting for only 0.16%\u20130.33% of adult bronchoscopic procedures. Early detection of an aspirated FB is essential to avoid significant complications, morbidity, and mortality.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5339\/qmj.2022.fqac.23","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,14]],"date-time":"2022-04-14T04:30:31Z","timestamp":1649910631000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Foreign body aspiration in an adult: An endobronchial \u201cMelon-oma\u201d"],"prefix":"10.5339","volume":"2022","author":[{"given":"Irfan","family":"Ul Haq","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation E-mail: IHaq@hamad.qa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mansoor","family":"Hameed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation E-mail: IHaq@hamad.qa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shakeel","family":"Ahmed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation E-mail: IHaq@hamad.qa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mousa","family":"Hussein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation E-mail: IHaq@hamad.qa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"3277","reference":[{"issue":"(8):","key":"CIT0001","series-title":"Ann Intern Med","first-page":"604-9","article-title":"Tracheobronchial foreign bodies in adults","volume":"112","year":"1990"},{"issue":"(3):","key":"CIT0002","series-title":"Eur Respir J","first-page":"510-4","article-title":"Non-asphyxiating tracheobronchial foreign bodies in adults","volume":"7","year":"1994"},{"issue":"(10):","key":"CIT0003","series-title":"Respir Care","first-page":"1438-48","article-title":"Foreign Body Inhalation in the Adult Population: Experience of 25,998 Bronchoscopies and Systematic Review of the Literature","volume":"60","year":"2015"},{"issue":"(8):","key":"CIT0001","series-title":"Ann Intern Med","first-page":"604-9","article-title":"Tracheobronchial foreign bodies in adults","volume":"112","year":"1990"},{"issue":"(3):","key":"CIT0002","series-title":"Eur Respir J","first-page":"510-4","article-title":"Non-asphyxiating tracheobronchial foreign bodies in adults","volume":"7","year":"1994"},{"issue":"(10):","key":"CIT0003","series-title":"Respir Care","first-page":"1438-48","article-title":"Foreign Body Inhalation in the Adult Population: Experience of 25,998 Bronchoscopies and Systematic Review of the Literature","volume":"60","year":"2015"}],"container-title":["Qatar Medical Journal"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.qscience.com\/view\/journals\/qmj\/2022\/2\/article-23.xml","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.qscience.com\/downloadpdf\/journals\/qmj\/2022\/2\/article-23.xml","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.qscience.com\/downloadpdf\/journals\/qmj\/2022\/2\/article-23.xml","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,27]],"date-time":"2026-04-27T17:10:44Z","timestamp":1777309844000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.qscience.com\/view\/journals\/qmj\/2022\/2\/article-23.xml"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,4]]},"references-count":6,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5339\/qmj.2022.fqac.23","relation":{},"ISSN":["2227-0426"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2227-0426","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,4]]}}}