A Rare Case of Airway Foreign Body Removed by Gastroscope

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Recently we have experienced an about 15cm long foreign body lodged at trachea in the adult patient, it was a toothbrush bar of which the head had been removed by patient himself. Its tip was shown above vocal cord on videogastroscope, so we removed the toothbrush bar by using the foreign body forcep. So we report it with review of literature.