Atypical intranasal foreign body.

This report records the findings of a long-standing intransasal foreign body in a six-year-old boy from a remote, semidesert region of Kenya. He had nasal obstruction for 20 months and as a result had developed chronic otitis media and severe malnutrition. Removal of the mass was accomplished piecemeal by aspiration, revealing that the entire septum and both lateral nasal walls had been destroyed by the process, thought to be due to a vegetal foreign body. Following removal of the foreign body, his health improved, the otitis media cleared up and he gained weight.