Metastatic rhinosporidioma in a child.
Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi. It commonly affects nasal mucosa and conjunctiva. Subcutaneous disease is unusual and it is often mistaken for soft-tissue sarcoma. Such tumoral rhinosporidiosis has never been reported in children. This report describes, for the first time, an 11-year-old girl who presented with nasal polyp and multiple metastatic swellings of rhinosporidial origin. Fine-needle aspiration cytology and histopathology were diagnostic. Surgical excision, followed by dapsone therapy, was found to be useful.
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram 608002, India. vrthiran@yahoo.co.in
Venkatachalam
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Raveenthiran
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012227:Rhinosporidiosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery