Radiology of a rare foreign body in the nasal cavity.
We report a 76-year-old man referred because of incessant epistaxis. During presurgical investigation a radiodense mass was detected in the left nasal cavity, which turned out to be an iodoform-soaked gauze pack put in by a general practitioner some weeks previously and simply forgotten.
Schoendorf
J
J
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Cologne, Germany. jakob.schoendorf@uni-koeln.de
Jungehuelsing
M
M
D000368:Aged; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009666:Nose; D011859:Radiography