Complex airway foreign bodies: Clinical insights and management strategies in contemporary practice

Tracheobronchial foreign body (FB) aspiration can have varied clinico-radiologic presentations.It can be classified based on the types of FB aspirated, or their myriad presentations.Various tools and techniques have been used to retrieve these airway foreign bodies in various case reports and systematic reviews.However, FB extraction in all cases is not straightforward.FB extraction may be difficult in some cases by virtue of the nature of FB, the clinical status of the patient, the availability of adequate tools and surrounding tissue response to FB.In this review article, we have tried to define the entity -complex FB, through various case vignettes, and propose an approach for management of the same.