School ager who started coughing while eating pizza

Surgical-Pathological-Clinical
Bronchoscopic image of airway foreign body
Bronchoscopic image at the level of the carina (above) shows a blue foreign body in the left mainstem bronchus which was pulled out of the airway (middle) and upon removal was found to be a blue crayon (below).

The diagnosis was airway foreign body in the left mainstem bronchus.

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