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Doctors in Dubai removed a fish bone that had been stuck in a Sharjah resident's airways for almost two months

A 60-year-old resident of Sharjah suffered from coughing, chest congestion and difficulty breathing for almost two months due to a 2 cm fish bone stuck in his right main bronchus. His first visit to the emergency department did not reveal the cause; the bone was only detected on a CT scan. Removal at Aster Hospital Mankhool took 30–40 minutes, and the patient was discharged three hours later.

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In Bashkortostan, doctors removed a dental prosthesis that a man had carried inside him for two years from his bronchus

In Sterlitamak, endoscopic surgeons removed a dental prosthesis with five gold teeth from a patient's right bronchus, which had been in his airways for about two years. The man believed the prosthesis had fallen out in his sleep and attributed his cough to age and a cold. The case was reported by Bashkortostan's Health Minister Airat Rakhmatullin.

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