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Adrian Hayes

A Toy Cup Sat in Her Lung 51 Years Because Doctors Assumed She Had Coughed It Up

She was 8 years old when she inhaled a plastic cup from a Barbie dollhouse. She knew it. She told doctors at the time, and she kept telling them for the next five decades.

Chest X-rays never showed anything, so clinicians concluded she must have coughed it out. Nobody sent her for a bronchoscopy.

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