Airway obstruction due to mochi (sticky rice cake) retrieved with a cryoprobe

Masanori Kawataki; Masamitsu Hamakawa; Momoko Hayase; Tadashi Ishida

doi:10.1002/rcr2.1322

Respirology Case Reports (Mar 2024)

Airway obstruction due to mochi (sticky rice cake) retrieved with a cryoprobe

Masanori Kawataki,
Masamitsu Hamakawa,
Momoko Hayase,
Tadashi Ishida

Affiliations

Masanori Kawataki: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ohara Healthcare Foundation Kurashiki Central Hospital Kurashiki Okayama Japan
Masamitsu Hamakawa: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ohara Healthcare Foundation Kurashiki Central Hospital Kurashiki Okayama Japan
Momoko Hayase: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ohara Healthcare Foundation Kurashiki Central Hospital Kurashiki Okayama Japan
Tadashi Ishida: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ohara Healthcare Foundation Kurashiki Central Hospital Kurashiki Okayama Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1322
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

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Key message Cryoprobes represent an option for bronchial foreign body removal in cases of bronchial obstruction due to viscous substances such as mochi at body temperature.

Published in Respirology Case Reports

ISSN: 2051-3380 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2051-3380

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