Fungal Orbital Infection Mimicking Malignancy in a Girl

Fungal infection of the orbit is rare especially among immunocompetent patients. We present a 9-year–old girl with peri-orbital, eyelid and internal canthus swelling of the left eye. Clinical impression was suggestive of malignant tumor such as rhabdomyosarcoma or lymphoma. Histopathological examina...

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Autores principales: Zahir, Shokouh Taghipour, Sharahjin, Naser Sefidrokh, Rahmani, Koorosh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064804
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author Zahir, Shokouh Taghipour
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description Fungal infection of the orbit is rare especially among immunocompetent patients. We present a 9-year–old girl with peri-orbital, eyelid and internal canthus swelling of the left eye. Clinical impression was suggestive of malignant tumor such as rhabdomyosarcoma or lymphoma. Histopathological examination of biopsied tissue revealed necrotizing granulomatous inflammation confirmed as fungal infection. Complete response to antifungal therapy was noted after four months.
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spelling pubmed-44480972015-06-10 Fungal Orbital Infection Mimicking Malignancy in a Girl Zahir, Shokouh Taghipour Sharahjin, Naser Sefidrokh Rahmani, Koorosh APSP J Case Rep Case Report Fungal infection of the orbit is rare especially among immunocompetent patients. We present a 9-year–old girl with peri-orbital, eyelid and internal canthus swelling of the left eye. Clinical impression was suggestive of malignant tumor such as rhabdomyosarcoma or lymphoma. Histopathological examination of biopsied tissue revealed necrotizing granulomatous inflammation confirmed as fungal infection. Complete response to antifungal therapy was noted after four months. EL-MED-Pub 2015-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4448097/ /pubmed/26064804 Text en Copyright © 2015 AJCR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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