title: An unusual impacted foreign body in the nasopharynx.
abstract: Foreign bodies are comonly seen in upper acrodigestive tract but these are lodge very infrequently in masopharywr.various types of foreign bodies like leech whitsle wood piece marble coin etc. have beenremoved from the masopharywr.It is unusual for a foreign body to get impacted in adcnoid tissue of the masopharywr. This article highlights one such rare incidence where a button was impacted in the adenoid mass, which could be retrived only after adenoidectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of E.N.T, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), 605 006 Pondicherry.
authors.forename: Sunil Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gopalakrishnan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ravi
keywords: Impacted foreign body; button; nasopharynx