[Pathologic findings and main aetiologies of rhinosinusal infections].
A large variety of infectious diseases may involve the rhinosinusal tract. They include bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasite infections. These infections can induce an acute and/or a chronic inflammatory reaction. They can develop both in immunocompetent or in immunodeficient patients. Clinically, the consequences of these infections are variable, but a few of them have to be rapidly diagnosed for an immediate specific treatment. This article describes the pathologic features of a variety of infectious diseases that surgical pathologists may encounter in analysis of biopsy specimens taken from the rhinosinusal tract.
Ilie
Marius
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Laboratoire de pathologie clinique et expérimentale, hôpital Pasteur, 30, avenue de la Voie-Romaine, BP 69, 06002 Nice cedex 01, France.
Hofman
Véronique
V
Butori
Catherine
C
Lassalle
Sandra
S
Hofman
Paul
P
D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009181:Mycoses / Q000150:complications; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000150:complications