Abstract
We report 4 recent cases of nasal rhinosporidiosis in Rwanda. All patients were boys or young men living in the same district (Gatsibo District, Eastern Province), suggesting a reservoir in the area. The recent reemergence of rhinosporidiosis in Rwanda might reflect increased availability of diagnostic services rather than emerging disease.
Highlights
We report 4 recent cases of nasal rhinosporidiosis in Rwanda
In Africa, rhinosporidiosis has been documented in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, predominantly as conjunctival disease [6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
We report 4 recent cases of nasal rhinosporidiosis diagnosed by using histopathologic methods at the University Central Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda
Summary
We report 4 recent cases of nasal rhinosporidiosis in Rwanda. All patients were boys or young men living in the same district (Gatsibo District, Eastern Province), suggesting a reservoir in the area. We report 4 recent cases of nasal rhinosporidiosis diagnosed by using histopathologic methods at the University Central Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda. Patient age, sex, place of residence, clinical signs and symptoms, and year of diagnosis were recorded. In keeping with previous studies, all patients were young boys and teenagers (7–15 years of age) who had nasal obstruction and a friable mass that bled on touch.
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