Kapil Gohokar¹ and Apoorva Kumar Pandey²*

¹Senior Resident, Department of ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, Sri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Patel Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
²Professor and Head, Department of ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, Sri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Patel Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

*Corresponding Author: Apoorva Kumar Pandey, Professor and Head, Department of ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, Sri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Patel Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Received: July 13, 2023; Published: August 31, 2023

Abstract

Children with foreign bodies in the nose are often encountered in the pediatric emergency setting. The age group is usually between 2 and 4 years old, and the most common foreign body is a battery, plastic toy or bead. Removal of nasal foreign bodies is done by a number of techniques. Complications of nasal foreign bodies include posterior dislodgement and aspiration, local trauma due to FB itself or failed/repeated attempts of removal, infection, and choanal stenosis. Metallic objects (Magnets, pins, needles, buttons) and button batteries require urgent removal as they involve the risk of septal perforation or necrosis, which can develop within a relatively short span of time.

 Keywords: Foreign Body (FB); Nose; Metallic Objects (Magnets, Pins, Needles, Buttons); Battery; Plastic Toy or Bead

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Citation

Citation: Kapil Gohokar and Apoorva Kumar Pandey. “Forgotten Foreign Body (FB) Nose: Endoscopic Removal. A Case Report".Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 5.9 (2023): 39-41.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Kapil Gohokar and Apoorva Kumar Pandey. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.