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Allergic Fungal Sinusitis
Vol. 10 No. 1, January-March 2008 5 Introduction Allergic fungal sinusitis is a benign noninvasive sinus disease, believed to be an allergic reaction to aerosolized environmental fungi. It has been almost three decades when in 1976 Safirstein noted that the combination of polyposis, crust formation and sinus cultures yielding aspergillus was similar to the constellation of findings observed in ...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a relatively newly recognized entity consisting of a pansinusitis with allergic mucinous infiltrates in all involved sinuses. Historically mistaken for a paranasal sinus tumor, AFS is believed to be an allergic reaction to aerolized environmental fungi, usually of dematiaceous and Aspergillus species, in an immunocompetent host. We de...
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Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a benign, extramucosal, noninvasive fungal sinus disease representing an allergic/hypersensitivity response to extramucosal fungal pathogens in the sinus [1]. It occurs mainly in immunocompetent patients, in contrast to invasive fungal diseases that usually involve an immunocompromised host. The incidence of AFS in patients affected by chronic rhinosinusitis a...
متن کاملAllergic Fungal Sinusitis: CT Findings1
1 From the Departments of Radiology (5KM., J.G.A., M.C.), Surgery (S.K.M.), Pathology (L.L.C.), and Otolaryngology (K.R.J.), University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 3324 Old Infirmary CB 751 0, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-751 0; the Departments of Radiology(R.EF)andOtolaryngology(S.B.K.), Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; the Department of Radiology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, ...
متن کاملPresentation and diagnosis of allergic fungal sinusitis.
BACKGROUND Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a form of fungal disease that has recently been considered a distinct clinicopathologic entity. Other forms of fungal sinusitis include acute-fulminant (invasive), chronic indolent (invasive) and mycetoma (non-invasive). Objectives were to assess the presentation and to describe the diagnostic techniques for allergic fungal sinusitis in our setup. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Bika Gakkai Kaishi (Japanese Journal of Rhinology)
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0910-9153,1883-7077
DOI: 10.7248/jjrhi1982.43.2_188