Cultures positively identified fungal organisms in 49 patients, with 16 containing multiple organisms (Table 1). Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) reveals thick, tenacious mucus ranging ...

Acute or fulminant fungal sinusitis usually affects diabetics and immunocompromised hosts. Patients at highest risk for acute invasive fungal sinusitis are poorly controlled diabetics and those ...

Further investigation, including an MRI, revealed mucosal thickening and a breakthrough in the thin bone separating her sinuses and orbital ... the patient’s fungal infection had progressed ...

Timely diagnosis and advanced skull base surgery preserved the patient’s vision, avoided eye removal and averted life-threatening complications ...

Complications Further examination, including an MRI, revealed mucosal thickening ... surgical and medical intervention for ...