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To the Editor: Inhalation of foreign bodies by children is common yet often missed.^1,2,3 We report a case of inhalation of a LEGO piece that was difficult to identify.

A five-year-old boy presented with a cough of two months' duration that was precipitated by exercise but also occurred at night. His father had had asthma as a child. The boy had seen an otolaryngologist and a pediatrician, both of whom suspected asthma. On further questioning, the father remembered that the boy had swallowed a LEGO piece four months earlier. He was in no distress, but auscultation revealed widespread expiratory rhonchi.

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