Invasive paranasal mucormycosis with peripheral eosinophilia in an immunocompetent patient

Med Mycol. 2010 Mar;48(2):406-9. doi: 10.1080/13693780903177790.

Abstract

A 53-year-old healthy patient was admitted with unilateral nasal obstruction of one month duration which was suspected to be a malignancy because of mass-like finding on radiology and peripheral eosinophilia. The biopsy of the involved sinus showed tissue invasion by aseptate hyphae suggestive of a zygomycete and tissue infiltration of eosinophilia. He was diagnosed as invasive paranasal mucomycosis and treated with complete endoscopic sinus surgery and amphotericin B deoxycholate. Paranasal symptoms with peripheral eosinophilia might be a presentation of invasive fungal sinusitis.

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Eosinophilia / diagnosis*
  • Eosinophilia / drug therapy
  • Eosinophilia / immunology
  • Eosinophilia / microbiology
  • Female
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • Immunocompetence
  • Middle Aged
  • Mucormycosis / diagnosis*
  • Mucormycosis / drug therapy
  • Mucormycosis / immunology
  • Mucormycosis / microbiology
  • Paranasal Sinus Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Paranasal Sinus Diseases / drug therapy
  • Paranasal Sinus Diseases / immunology
  • Paranasal Sinus Diseases / microbiology
  • Paranasal Sinuses / microbiology
  • Paranasal Sinuses / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents