title: [Diagnosis and treatment of fungal ball rhino-sinusitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the diagnosis and treatment of the fungal ball rhino-sinusitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data of 128 cases with the fungal ball rhino-sinusitis in our hospital between September 2005 and January 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were accepted nasal endoscopic surgery and followed up after surgery. The diagnosis were confirmed by postoperative pathological examination.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sinus of all patients epithelialized after the surgery from fourth to ninth weeks, one case recurred eight months later.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sinus CT scan and nasal endoscopy were very important to the diagnosis of the fungal ball rhino-sinusitis, and nasal endoscopic surgery is the most important treatment method to fungal ball rhino-sinusitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yiling Hospital of Yichang, Yichang 443100, China. yldentnj@163.corn
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Fenfang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hanwu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D059747:Nasal Surgical Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult