ArticleWorld journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery2017
Evidence for a 'preinvasive' variant of fungal sinusitis: Tissue invasion without angioinvasion.
Article in World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Predicting the Probability of the Incidence of Maxillary Sinus Fungus Ball in Patients Using Nomogram Models.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Isolated Acute Sphenoid Fungal Sinusitis with Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis: Our Experience.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Cerebral Fungal Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient.The Neurohospitalist · 2020Article
- Microinvasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis: Proposal of a New Subtype in the Classification.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Clinical experience has suggested the existence of an intermediate form of fungal sinusitis between the categories of non-invasive fungal sinusitis (non-IFS) and invasive fungal sinusitis (IFS). This fungal sinusitis variant demonstrates unhealthy mucosa by endoscopy with fungal invasion, but lacks angioinvasion microscopically, representing what clinically behaves as a 'pre-invasive' subtype of fungal sinusitis. Unlike non-IFS disease, patients with pre-invasive fungal sinusitis were still felt to require anti-fungal medications due to histologic presence of invasive fungus. While sharing some clinical features of IFS, these 'intermediate' patients were successfully spared extended and repeated surgical debridements given the microscopic findings, and have been successfully treated with shorter courses of antifungal therapy. These select patients have had favorable outcomes when managed in a judicious and semi-aggressive manner, in an undefined zone between the treatments for routine fungal ball and aggressive IFS.
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