[Rhinolithiasis: review about 18 cases].
OBJECTIVE
This study reports 18 cases of rhinolithiasis.


METHODS
They were diagnosed and treated between 1990 and 2004.


RESULTS
The population is mainly composed of adults (55%), female, and coming very often from unfavourable socio-economic conditions. This pathology is rarely asymptomatic. It comprises mainly a unilateral chronic rhinitis sometimes stinking and bloody. The diagnosis is made with nasal endoscopy which is characteristic. The CT scan is very interesting for a local assessment and shows associated lesions. Extraction by natural approach ways more often under local anaesthesia was the usual therapeutic process. Rhinolitis were of 5 to 50 mms diameter with only 3 associated foreign bodies (16%). Complications are rare (epistaxis: 11%).


CONCLUSIONS
according to the review of the literature the outcome is generally favourable. (full article translated in English available on www.ent-review.com).
Kharoubi
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Faculté de Médecine Annaba, Service ORL, Maître de Conférence des Hôpitaux, Algerie. s_kharoubi@yahoo.fr
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009296:Nasal Cavity / Q000473:pathology; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D009812:Odorants; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012923:Social Class