International Clinical and Medical Case Reports Journal (ISSN: 2832-5788) | Volume 2, Issue 13 | Case Report | Open Access
Vijeta Bajpai*
Vijeta Bajpai, Department of Microbiology, Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya cancer Centre/Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, (A unit of Tata Memorial Centre,Mumbai), Varanasi, Varanasi – 221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Correspondence to: Vijeta Bajpai
Fulltext PDFInvasive aspergillosis of the paranasal sinuses is an uncommon entity and often misdiagnosed with tumour or other malignancy. We report a rare case of aspergilloma mimicking as paranasal sinus tumour in a patient referred from a hospital in rural India. Patient was initially diagnosed as paranasal sinus tumour in other hospital and refereed to our hospital which is a tertiary cancer centre. Finally, identification of Aspergillus flavus infection referred was done by the histopathological A newly established ,tertiary cancer centre examination and growth in fungal culture from the biopsy done from paranasal sinus. The patient was treated with intravenous voriconazole for 2 weeks and recovered completely after follow up.
Tumour; Cancer; North India
Vijeta Bajpai, Rahul Sarode, Sujit Bharti, Ipsita Dhal, Swagnik Chakrabarti. A Case of Invasive Aspergilloma Masquerading as Ethmoidal Sinus Tumour in a Patient in Tertiary Cancer Centre in North India. Int Clinc Med Case Rep Jour.2023;2(13):1-5.