title: Histopathologically confirmed ocular rhinosporidiosis in two Canadians.
abstract: METHODS
  In India and Southeast Asia, rhinosporidiosis is a common infectious disease, but it has rarely been reported in western countries. Infrequently, isolated ocular rhinosporidial infections have been reported, but to our knowledge, there are no reported cases in Canada. Two cases of rhinosporidiosis have been recently diagnosed and managed at our university-based hospital.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Rhinosporidiosis presents with certain characteristic clinical features; however, the diagnosis is confirmed histopathologically. The presence of typical sporangia and spores in a fibrovascular stroma infiltrated by acute and chronic inflammatory cells including granulomas is diagnostic. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice, and recurrence is possible but rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Le Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. monadagher@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harissi-Dagher
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Robillard
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corriveau
authors.forename: Michèle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mabon
authors.forename: Guy S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Allaire
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003229:Conjunctival Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012227:Rhinosporidiosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012228:Rhinosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification*