[Anesthetic management of a child with an esophageal foreign body which was misdiagnosed as asthma attack].

We have experienced anesthesia of a child with airway stenosis caused by esophageal foreign body (coin-type lithium battery), which was misdiagnosed as asthma. The case is an 18-month-old boy who had asthma-like symptoms since 2 months before, and visited our hospital because these symptom had started to worsen 3 days before visit. His stridor was significant and we noted a coin-shaped foreign body on chest X-ray taken for admission. Therefore we removed the foreign body using upper gastrointestinal endoscope under general anesthesia. The airway management was very difficult because airway stenosis had been aggravated for delayed diagnosis, diagnosing.