We present 32- and 38-year-old males with Schizophyllum commune-induced allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS). S. commune-induced AFRS was diagnosed by clinical and radiographic findings, positive specific IgE antibodies against S. commune as measured by the ImmunoCAP system, and sequencing analysis of the fungus. Our two cases with S. commune-induced AFRS for the first time showed evidence for...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of a sinus fungus ball (SFB) is often not clear despite well-defined diagnostic criteria. OBJECTIVE To study the radiological, intraoperative and histological diagnostic accuracy in comparison to results from mycological and histological analysis. METHODS Systematic review of 724 files from patients treated for chronic rhinosinusitis from 1999 - 2006 at our institut...

BACKGROUND Fungal sinusitis is increasing worldwide in the past two decades. It is divided into two types including invasive and noninvasive. Noninvasive types contain allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) and fungus ball. AFS is a hypersensitivity reaction to fungal allergens in the mucosa of the sinonasal tract in atopic individuals. The fungus ball is a different type of noninvasive fungal rhinosi...

nasal polyposis is an inflammatory condition of unknown etiology that involves nasal and sinus mucous membrane. these polyps can impair a person’s quality of life by nasal obstruction, recurrent sinusitis, persistent postnasal drainage, hyposmia, anosmia, changes in sense of taste and even bony destruction. it has been shown that chronic inflammation causes a reactive hyperplasia of the intrana...

Thanikachalam Subramanyan1, Rakesh Singh2, Karunanidhi Manickam1, Jagadeeswaran Vadivel Udayakumaran1, Neeta pal1*, Namrata Pal3 and Govind Pal4 1Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Pondicherry, India 2Jawaharlal Institute of Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India 3Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India 4Miraj Medical ...