Aspergillosis of the maxillary sinus. Clinical and histopathological features of 4 cases and a review of the literature.
Four patients with aspergillus maxillary sinusitis are reported and a review of the literature on aspergillus paranasal sinusitis during the last 10 years is presented. The patients had symptoms and X-ray findings similar to a chronic bacterial sinusitis. One patient had been operated upon 6 years previously due to a chronic sinusitis and 3 of the patients had been treated with broad-spectrum antibiotic drugs. Caldwell-Luc operations were performed, also to exclude malignant tumours. The aspergillus etiology of the sinuitis was discovered in routine stained sections by histo-pathological examination of the sinus mucosae. No recurrence of the fungus infection occurred after the Caldwell-Luc operation, which was valuable for the correct diagnosis as well as being the best suited therapy.
D000368:Aged; D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology