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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 523

Accidental detection of left intranasal foreign body during probing of right congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction


Department of Oculoplasty, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, Daryaganj, New Delhi, India

Date of Web Publication14-Feb-2020

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Dr. Smriti Bansal
Department of Oculoplasty, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, Daryaganj, New Delhi - 110 002
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1178_19

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Bansal S. Accidental detection of left intranasal foreign body during probing of right congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:523

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Bansal S. Accidental detection of left intranasal foreign body during probing of right congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 28];68:523. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/3/523/278347



A 2-year-old child presented with watering and discharge since birth in right eye (RE) with regurgitation of pus through the canaliculion on pressure over lacrimal sac. The child was posted for RE endoscopic guided probing and syringing. Intraoperatively, there was a thin membrane over valve of Hasner which was pierced with probe making the passage patent [Figure 1]a and [Figure 1]b. As a protocol, her left eye was checked for syringing, to look for patency, endoscope was introduced in left side and a foreign body was found impacted in the nostril [Figure 1]c. The foreign body was removed under endoscopic guidance [Figure 1]d. Parents were unaware about the impacted foreign body. A similar case has been reported where a vegetative foreign body caused obstruction at opening of nasolacrimal duct leading to symptoms of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction.[1] In the presented case, the foreign body was impacted in the other nostril and hence shows importance of bilateral examination.
Figure 1: (a) Probe in right nasal cavity showing thin membrane, (b) Probe pierced the membrane and passage was patent after that, (c) Foreign body impacted in left nostril, (d) Foreign body (part of female stoll) removed from left nasal cavity

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Ali MJ. Accidental detection of intra-nasal foreign body during probing for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Saudi J Ophthalmol 2016;30:272-3.  Back to cited text no. 1
    


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