fungal involvement of the paranasal sinuses is frequently observed in the immunocompromised host and it can become lifethreatening if it is not diagnosed. definitive diagnosis is made by tissue biopsy and culture. in this study biopsy materials of maxillary, ethmoidal and frontal sinuses of 60 patients with clinical manifestation of sinusitis and no response to medical therapy were assessed by ...

Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a rare disease of naso-sinusal complex affecting mainly young, immunocompetent adults who complain of chronic rhinitis and/or recurrent nasal polyposis despite medical and/or surgical treatment. Aim of the study is to analyse, from an allergological and otorhinolaryngological point of view, patients affected by the so-called "allergic fungal sinusitis" in orde...

Hyperprolactinemia is a rare entity in the pediatric population. The most common causes of hyperprolactinemia include drug use, hypothyroidism and renal insufficiency, though rarely a pituitary or sellar mass is discovered. We present an immunocompetent pediatric patient who presented with gynecomastia and was found to have hyperprolactinemia. Imaging showed a sphenoid mass and referral was mad...

health care impact. This review focuses on factors contributing to sinusitis pathogenesis and chronicity, including anatomic factors, disturbances in mucociliary clearance, microbial pathogens, and inflammatory factors. A distinction is made between “infectious” and “noninfectious” types of inflammation in chronic sinusitis. The inflammatory characteristics of noninfectious inflammation are rev...

we present a case of allergic fungal sinusitis (afb) in a 20-year old man with few months' history of bilateral nasal obstruction and discharge with unilateral proptosis that underwent maxillary antrostomy due to the mass in paranasal sinuses. histological examination of tissue showed branching fungal hyphae interspersed with allergic mucin without fungal invasion to soft tissue. the patient re...