Fungus-like sinusitis

B-ENT. 2005;1(2):83-8.

Abstract

Fungus-like sinusitis is also called eosinophilic mucin rhinosinusitis (EMRS). This terminology is purely descriptive and refers to a rhinosinusitis, whose clinical presentation and imaging are similar to those of a noninvasive fungal sinusitis but in which fungus could not be demonstrated pathologically using the conventional silver staining technique or on culture. The authors report 2 clinical cases and recall the diagnostic criteria for the different forms of fungal sinusitis in immunocompetent patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Chronic Disease
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Eosinophilia / diagnosis*
  • Eosinophilia / surgery
  • Female
  • Frontal Sinus / diagnostic imaging
  • Frontal Sinus / pathology
  • Frontal Sinus / surgery
  • Humans
  • Immunocompetence
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Maxillary Sinus / microbiology
  • Maxillary Sinus / pathology
  • Maxillary Sinus / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoses / diagnosis*
  • Mycoses / surgery
  • Sinusitis / diagnosis*
  • Sinusitis / surgery*
  • Sphenoid Sinus / microbiology
  • Sphenoid Sinus / pathology
  • Sphenoid Sinus / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed