38. A 25-year-old man with seizure disorder is brought to the emergency department by his wife because of progressive shortness of breath and coughing since having ageneralized tonic-clonic seizure while sitting at the dinner table 24 hours ago. He tells the physician that the gold crown on his left first molar is now missing. If thispatient aspirated the crown while sitting, a chest x-ray is most likely to show the crown to be in which of the following locations?A) Lower lobe of the left lungB) Lower lobe of the right lungC) TracheaD) Upper lobe of the left lungE) Upper lobe of the right lung

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Phlebotomy Essentials

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38. A 25-year-old man with seizure disorder is brought to the emergency department by his wife because of progressive shortness of breath and coughing since having a
generalized tonic-clonic seizure while sitting at the dinner table 24 hours ago. He tells the physician that the gold crown on his left first molar is now missing. If this
patient aspirated the crown while sitting, a chest x-ray is most likely to show the crown to be in which of the following locations?
A) Lower lobe of the left lung
B) Lower lobe of the right lung
C) Trachea
D) Upper lobe of the left lung
E) Upper lobe of the right lung

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Foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial region are commonly caused due to aspiration. Usually young children between 1 to 3 year of age group are affected. Adults can also be affected. The condition can be with minimal symptoms which is often unobserved or can be serious with the respiratory compromise, respiratory failure and death. If the foreign body does not cause remarkable obstruction the patient manifest with chronic cough, asymmetrical breath sound for recurrent pneumonia of a specific lobe of lung.