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An unusual foreign body in the nasopharynx

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Coins, playing toys etc. are the commonest foreign bodies of food and air passages in children, but such an unusual and large size foreign body in nasopharynx is not very common. Due to structure of the bangle there was no alarming symptoms.

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  1. Department of ENT and Head & Nech Surgery, down town hospital ltd., Dispur, 781006, Guwahati, Assam

    N. N. Dutta (Chairman & Managing Director down town hospital ltd.) & Bhaben Choudhury MBBS, MS (AILMS), FIGS (Chief Consultant, MBBS, MS (ENT) Junior Consultant)

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Dutta, N.N., Choudhury, B. An unusual foreign body in the nasopharynx. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 57, 266–267 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03008031

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