CORRESPONDENCE Bronchoscopic Removal of Unusual Foreign Body Through

Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration can occur in all age groups but is more common in children. A previously healthy 5-month-old child presented to our hospital with aspiration of a metallic hair pin, one day before. As per the parents, the elder male sibling (3 years old) was playing with the child when the patient accidentally aspirated the hair pin. This was immediately followed by cough. The child was restless with minimal respiratory distress, pulse rate 140/min and SpO2 95%. A posteroanterior chest radiograph (Fig. 1) revealed a hair pin in the right main bronchus. Rigid bronchoscopy was done under general anesthesia and the foreign body was removed from the right main bronchus but got stuck into base of tongue as open prongs of hair pin were facing th