Introduction:
Aspiration of a foreign body is commonly reported among children.
Although considered the gold standardfor extraction of airway foreign
bodies,rigid bronchoscopyfails in up to7% 1,2of
cases. Although there are reports of successful use of flexible
bronchoscope for airway foreign body removal it has many limitations. We
describe an adolescent patientwherein a distally placed airway foreign
body after the failure of removal with rigid bronchoscope twice could be
removed successfully using flexible-through-rigid bronchoscopy
technique. We discuss the advantages of this technique over either of
the scopes used alone.