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To describe a rare case of rhinolith formation 21 years after dacryocystorhino stomy (DCR) with rubber gum and polyethylene tubing surgery. Interventional case report. A 23-year-old-woman underwent uneventful left DCR with rubber gum an d polyethylene tubing for chronic dacryocystitis. Twenty-one years later, she p resented with purulent rhinorrhea, nasal obstruction, and facial pain. Computed tomography revealed a radiopaque density in the left nasal cavity. A rubber gum foreign body embedded with granulation tissue and a huge rhinolith was removed e ndoscopically through the anterior nares. After surgery, the patient reported im mediate and complete relief of symptoms. Rhinoliths can develop progressively se veral years after DCR as a result of foreign body reaction to rubber gum or poly ethylene tubing. This rare complication should be ruled out in patients complain ing of purulent rhinorrhea who underwent DCR with tubing before the early 1980s.
To describe a rare case of rhinolith formation 21 years after dacryocystorhino stomy (DCR) with rubber gum and polyethylene tubing surgery. Interventional case report. A 23-year-old-woman underwent uneventful left DCR with rubber gum an d polyethylene tubing for chronic dacryocystitis Twenty-one years later, she p resented with purulent rhinorrhea, nasal obstruction, and facial pain. Computed tomography revealed a radiopaque density in the left nasal cavity. A rubber gum foreign body embedded with granulation tissue and a huge rhinolith was removed e ndoscopically After the anterior nares. After surgery, the patient reported im mediate and complete relief of symptoms. Rhinoliths can develop progressively ve ve years years after DCR as a result of foreign body reaction to rubber gum or poly ethylene tubing. This rare complication should be ruled out in patients complain ing of purulent rhinorrhea who underwent DCR with tubing before the early 1980s.