12-year old boy had persistent cough, doctors find a pen cap in his lung

January 27: In a surprising development, a 12-year-old Kolkata boy was brought to the hospital after he complained of severe cough. Doctors suspected there must be some foreign body inside his lungs and a CT scan was done.Suspecting that a foreign body might be inside his lungs, the doctor conducted a CT scan that revealed the presence of a pen cap in his left lung. The condition of the boy is stable after the surgery that was conducted on Thursday.

The boy, a resident of Garia in the southern fringes of Kolkata, was brought to the Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial or SSKM Hospital with persistent cough and cold problems, said Dr Arunabha Sengupta, head of the ENT department at the SSKM Hospital. The boy’s family members then said he had swallowed the cap in November.

“After the CT scan revealed that a pen cap was inside his left lung, a bronchoscopy was done on Thursday and it was removed. He is stable and out of danger,” Dr Sengupta said.