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We report a 5-year old girl with progressive difficulty in breathing through the nose whose clinical diagnosis was nasal tumour. CT showed a calcified nodular mass and MRI a nonspecific nodular lesion in the right nasal cavity. The radiological suspicion was a rhinolith. The operative specimen showed that an eraser from a pencil was the primary source. We underline the rarity of this entity and the important role of radiological studies in preoperative recognition.
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Received: 25 February 1997 Accepted: 26 February 1997
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Muñoz, A., Pedrosa, I. & Villafruela, M. “Eraseroma” as a cause of rhinolith: CT and MRI in a child. Neuroradiology 39, 824–826 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050515
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050515