Recurrent Nasal and Disseminated Rhinosporidiosis
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Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infective disease commonly involving the nose and occasionally involving the skin and subcutaneous tissues. We hereby report a case of nasal and disseminated rhinosporidiosis who was operated thrice and had a recurrence of disease in the nasal cavity and the nasopharynx. Biopsy from the lesions in nasal cavity proved the recurrence of disease and he was managed with endoscopic endonasal resection of the lesions along with CO2 laser assisted ablation & electrocautery assisted cauterisation of the base of the disease from the nasal cavity & nasopharynx.
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