A nasal foreign body is an accident commonly seen in the otolaryngology service. In 2010, a 65-year-old male patient with a nasal foreign body presented at the outpatient clinic of our department. The patient had hearing impairment accompanied by tinnitus, which had lasted for two weeks. An audiometric examination revealed right middle ear effusion, and a hard metallic foreign body was found within the nasal cavity during further physical examination. Subsequent examination showed that the foreign body reached 1.5 cm close to the meningeal layer but had not penetrated the dura. Angiography examination confirmed that no major vessels were involved, though the foreign body had penetrated through the skull base. Due to the location of the foreign body, surgical removal was highly risky. We therefore employed an endoscopic transnasal approach to remove the foreign body, and found it to be a broken fragment of an antenna of 9 cm in length. Postoperative examination revealed that the patient did not show signs of cerebrospinal fluid leakage.