Abstract

Invasive fungal infections of the nasal and paranasal sinuses are emerging health care problems and are increasingly being reported in healthy immunocompetent persons. Fungal rhinosinusitis (FRS) broadly encompass a wide spectrum of immune and pathological responses that include invasive, chronic, granulomatous and allergic disease. A wide range of fungal species are involved but Aspergillus species is the most common etiological agent. Granulomatous invasive FRS is one of the variants particularly prevalent in Sudan, India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Herein we report a case of chronic granulomatous invasive fungal sinusitis in an immunocompetent adult female.1, 2, 3

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