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Abstract
Fungus-like sinusitis. 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.
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Published In
Journal
B-ENT
Volume / Issue
Volume 1 · Issue 2
Pages
83-88
History
Published Online
June 15, 2005
Affiliations
Ph. Eloy
ENT Department, CHU UCL Namur, Site de Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
V. Grulois
Department of Otorhinolaryngology -Head & Neck Surgery, Université Catholique de Louvain, Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
M. C. Nollevaux
Department of Histopathology, CHU UCL Namur, Site de Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
St. Collet
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Ph. Rombaux
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium, Institute of Neuroscience
B. Bertrand
ENT Department, CHU de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir
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Eloy, P., Grulois, V., Nollevaux, M. C., Collet, S., Rombaux, P., & Bertrand, B. (2005). Fungus-like sinusitis. B-ENT, 1(2), 83–88. Retrieved from https://www.b-ent.be/index.php/pub/article/view/26
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