Chronic invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses: A case report with review of literature

Aspergillosis of the nasal and paranasal sinuses is recognized as being second to candidiasis, among opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. However, invasive variant in normal and mildly immunocompromised hosts is a very rare occurrence. We report one such case of aspergillos...

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Autores principales: Tamgadge, Avinash P, Mengi, Rajiv, Tamgadge, Sandhya, Bhalerao, Sudhir S
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248489
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.102522
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description Aspergillosis of the nasal and paranasal sinuses is recognized as being second to candidiasis, among opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. However, invasive variant in normal and mildly immunocompromised hosts is a very rare occurrence. We report one such case of aspergillosis involving paranasal sinuses in mildly immunocompromised patient.
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spelling pubmed-35192322012-12-17 Chronic invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses: A case report with review of literature Tamgadge, Avinash P Mengi, Rajiv Tamgadge, Sandhya Bhalerao, Sudhir S J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Aspergillosis of the nasal and paranasal sinuses is recognized as being second to candidiasis, among opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. However, invasive variant in normal and mildly immunocompromised hosts is a very rare occurrence. We report one such case of aspergillosis involving paranasal sinuses in mildly immunocompromised patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3519232/ /pubmed/23248489 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.102522 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Chronic invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses: A case report with review of literature
title_fullStr Chronic invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses: A case report with review of literature
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title_short Chronic invasive aspergillosis of paranasal sinuses: A case report with review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519232/
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