title: Foreign body in the maxillary sinus--possible plastic tube: a case report.
abstract: We experienced the case of a patient who had a foreign body in the maxillary sinus. The patient complained of recurrent unilateral badly smelling rhinorrhea. The computed tomography and the magnetic resonance images revealed a foreign body in the maxillary sinus. The foreign body was removed via the Caldwell-Luc approach. The foreign body was a plastic tube, which was supposed to be designed for the drainage of the maxillary sinus. However, the patient did not remember having been subjected to a treatment using such kind of tube. After the surgical removal, the patient became free from the nasal symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Nippon Medical School, Kosugi-cho 1-396, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8533, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Ken-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Mayumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kunitomo
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: Sadayuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurosaki
authors.forename: Issei
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Higa
authors.forename: Hideharu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yagi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015523:Maxillary Sinusitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed