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Fungal ball in concha bullosa as incidentaloma: A case report and the review of the literature

Concha bullosa is an anatomic variant consisting in an enlargement and pneumatization of the middle nasal turbinate. A fungal ball (FB) localized in this structure is an extremely rare disease. This article describes the unusual case of a young patient with an asymptomatic fungal mass in the concha...

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Autores principales: Spatola, Antonella, Aspromonte, Michele, Marino, Maria Adele, Miano, Sebastiano Maria, Zagaria, Annamaria, Galletti, Bruno, Blandino, Alfredo, Ascenti, Giorgio, Sofia, Carmelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.12.052
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Sumario:Concha bullosa is an anatomic variant consisting in an enlargement and pneumatization of the middle nasal turbinate. A fungal ball (FB) localized in this structure is an extremely rare disease. This article describes the unusual case of a young patient with an asymptomatic fungal mass in the concha bullosa, incidentally discovered at computed tomography (CT) scan of the head, which was performed after trauma.