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Rhinolith Misdiagnosed as Fungal Mucin

Foreign body insertion inside the nose is not uncommon in pediatric age groups. It can pass unnoticed by parents, sometimes underdiagnosed or incompletely removed by a clinician. In another scenario, it may be incidentally discovered by imaging during dental workups commonly. This foreign body acts...

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Autores principales: Alrayes, Nuha, Alhumaizi, Abdulrahman, Alomair, Alanoud, Simsim, Rehab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10627519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37937012
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46648
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author Alrayes, Nuha
Alhumaizi, Abdulrahman
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description Foreign body insertion inside the nose is not uncommon in pediatric age groups. It can pass unnoticed by parents, sometimes underdiagnosed or incompletely removed by a clinician. In another scenario, it may be incidentally discovered by imaging during dental workups commonly. This foreign body acts like a nidus for a rhinolith, as it gets calcified over years and becomes like a stone, causing unilateral nasal symptoms. Herein, we present a case of a young female with a rhinolith mistaken for fungal mud. We aim to emphasize this rare clinical condition that, if left unperceived, may lead to complications including, but not limited to, sinusitis, pressure necrosis to the surrounding structure causing septal perforation, or naso-palatal fistula.
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spelling pubmed-106275192023-11-07 Rhinolith Misdiagnosed as Fungal Mucin Alrayes, Nuha Alhumaizi, Abdulrahman Alomair, Alanoud Simsim, Rehab Cureus Family/General Practice Foreign body insertion inside the nose is not uncommon in pediatric age groups. It can pass unnoticed by parents, sometimes underdiagnosed or incompletely removed by a clinician. In another scenario, it may be incidentally discovered by imaging during dental workups commonly. This foreign body acts like a nidus for a rhinolith, as it gets calcified over years and becomes like a stone, causing unilateral nasal symptoms. Herein, we present a case of a young female with a rhinolith mistaken for fungal mud. We aim to emphasize this rare clinical condition that, if left unperceived, may lead to complications including, but not limited to, sinusitis, pressure necrosis to the surrounding structure causing septal perforation, or naso-palatal fistula. Cureus 2023-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10627519/ /pubmed/37937012 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46648 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alrayes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10627519/
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