[Rhinolithiasis complicated by purulent dacryocystitis].

A female patient aged 80 with rhinolith in the right nostril was described. She developed typical symptomatology in the sense of one-sided difficult nose-breathing, abundant, purulent, fetid excretions complicated by purulent dacryocystitisin the right eye. The diagnosis was established on the basis of anamnesis and clinical finding and was radiologically confirmed. It was solved by concassation and removal of the rhinolyth. Postoperative course was uneventful.