An unusual naso oropharyngeal foreign body in a child

Abhishek Bahadur Singh; Abhay Sinha; Jitendra Singh Chauhan; Atul Kumar Singh

Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

An unusual naso oropharyngeal foreign body in a child

Abhishek Bahadur Singh, Abhay Sinha, Jitendra Singh Chauhan, Atul Kumar Singh

Abstract :

Summary We are presenting the case of a 4-years-old-boy who accidently lodged a oken tooth ush in the naso-oropharynx. A variety of inhaled or ingested objects may harbour in the upper aerodigestive tract with varied shape, size & nature of objects and some of them may be undetected for a long time. The foreign body was confirmed by the X-ray skull, neck & chest lateral view and was retrieved under general anaesthesia