Pityrosporum species associated with dacryoliths: in obstructive dacryocystitis.
Two dacryoliths removed from the obstructed and enlarged lacrimal sac of a 54 year-old female patient during dacryocystorhinostomy were found to contain the filamentous forms consistent with Pityrosporum oribulare. It does not seem that this fungus has been observed before in a dacryolith or in dacryocystitis.
D002137:Calculi / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D003607:Dacryocystitis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003608:Dacryocystorhinostomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007767:Lacrimal Duct Obstruction / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008290:Malassezia / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D008875:Middle Aged