Curette‐Assisted Removal of a Bronchial Screw Foreign Body Refractory to Forceps Grasping
Genki Inui, Kohei Yamane, Masaki Nakamoto, Shino Arita, Shiro Moriyama, Takafumi Nonaka, Yasuhiko Teruya, Masaaki Yanai, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Naoki Kinoshita, Kosuke Yamaguchi, Masato Morita, Masahiro Kodani, Akira Yamasaki · 2026
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Genki Inui leads a 2026 case report about removing a screw lodged in a man's airway inside the lung. The patient was a 70-year-old man with long-standing schizophrenia, and a chest scan found the screw by chance. It sat in a narrow branch of the left lower airway.
Doctors first tried forceps and a snare through a flexible scope, but the screw's smooth surface and tight space prevented a firm grip. They then slid a curette, a small loop tool, past the screw and shifted it toward the center. Once moved, forceps could grasp and remove it. The authors suggest this trick for similar hard-to-grasp objects.
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| CREATOR | Genki Inui, Kohei Yamane, Masaki Nakamoto, Shino Arita, Shiro Moriyama, Takafumi Nonaka, Yasuhiko Teruya, Masaaki Yanai, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Naoki Kinoshita, Kosuke Yamaguchi, Masato Morita, Masahiro Kodani, Akira Yamasaki |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3087 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |