That little girl made as a child, after more than half a century of life, he had by now put it aside in his mind but when the doctors in the hospital told him that he had a blockage in his nose which seemed to be right a dime he understood that in reality that penny that he had slipped into his nose as a child without saying anything to anyone had never left there. It is the singular story of a 59-year-old Russian man who, after suffering for a long time breathing difficulties, was convinced to go to an otolaryngologist at the Moscow polyclinic where, with an examination, doctors discovered the foreign object stuck in his right nostril .
The 59 year old explained that he had not breathed from that side of his nose for months now and with a CT scan the doctors found that the nasal passage on the right side was completely blocked by a foreign body of stony density, and in the posterior sections, closer to the nasopharynx, c ‘was a rounded object. Only then did the patient remember how in childhood, at the age of about six, he had stuck a coin in his nose, a kopek, while playing. for fear of the severe mother’s reaction she had kept it hidden and then he had completely forgotten about it.
As reported by the Moscow Department of Health, the man obviously had already had breathing difficulties in the past but all the doctors’ suspicions fell on the deviated nasal septum. Over the years, however, things got worse because a conglomerate of stony density has formed around the coin in the nose, the rhinolith, which effectively prevented breathing. However, a team of specialists led by Dr. Elena Nepryakhina solved the 59-year-old’s troubles by successfully performing an hour and a half endoscopic operation under general anesthesia at the specialist center in Zelenograd, Moscow. The operation, carried out last week, was perfectly successful and after a couple of days the patient was able to return home.
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