A tooth-shaped fungal tumor that was making breathing difficult was removed from the paranasal sinus of a patient with a tumor. The press service reports that Tyumen Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2.
Mycetoma is a fungal growth that usually affects the skin but can also form balls in the paranasal sinus. In a 16-year-old woman from Tyumen, the tumor was tooth-shaped and made breathing difficult. She had a successful surgery and was discharged from the hospital in good condition.
“During the endoscopic operation, we were quite surprised that the patient had a mycetoma tumor in the lower part of the nasal cavity. This disease is mostly characteristic of adult patients. “This is the first child with mycetoma in our practice in the last 6 years,” said Sergei Kudymov, head of the otolaryngology department of the children’s hospital OKB No. 2.
If left untreated, mycetoma can cause destruction of nasal structures and damage to the eyes.
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