Abstract
The authors reported two rare cases of a foreign body.
The first case was 31 year old male who was pierced on the left palpebular conjunctiva by the cap of ball-pen which had been kept in his left breast pocket when he fell in the course of rock climbing. The cap was left in the right maxillary sinus through the nasal cavity.
A day later of his visiting the authors' clinic, Caldwell-Luc operation was performed. The cap which penetrated his left orbit and nasal septum and stopped in the right maxillary sinus was successfully removed after cutting off the lateral bony wall of the maxillary sinus.
The second case was a 5 month old female baby. When she was playing she was accidentally covered with tulcum powder all over the face and inhaled the powder. Soon dyspnea occurred. She was sent to the authors' clinic without delay, and undertook the bronchoscopy. Her trachea and bronchus were filled with white mass. The authors tried to remove it as much as possible, but could not do it completely from the peripheral bronchus.
Unfortunately, two days later dyspnea increased, and she died.
The authors reflected that we should have learned how to treat such an unusual case.
