Abstract
1. The present paper is an autopsy report on a 53 years old female, who has died under the diagnosis of gangraenous progressive rhinitis after a clinical history covering a period of an approximately 1 year.
2. Considering the entity of the present disease, there are two possible explanations : infection and tumor. The present case is assumed as a sort of tumorous lesion which would have derived from an osteogenenic tumor, probably atypical myeloma.
3. Bacillus proteus and Staphylococcus aureus have been detected from the nasal focus by bacteriological procedures.
