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Orbital Complications of Mycosis of the Nose and the Paranasal Sinuses Keiichi Ichimura 1 1Department of Otolaryngology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine pp.57-63
Published Date 1982/1/20
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1492209388
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 Thirteen patients with mycotic infection of the nose and the paranasal sinuses are presented. A review of 438 reported cases in the literature concerning the sinonasal mycosis is also presented in view of the orbital complications.

 Most of the orbital complications in aspergillosis are due to a mass lesion in the orbit following the bony destruction of the orbital wall by aspergilloma. Phycomycosis usually starts in the nose and the maxillary sinuses (this stage is considered to be a subclinical one) and spreads to the ethmoid cells and thence to the orbit via the ethmoid vessels. The fungus commonly ascends to the orbital apex and then through the cavernous sinus to invade and obstruct the internal carotid artery in early stage, which leads to variety of orbital symptoms. Exceptional clinical course may exist in both mycoses.

 Diagnosis of phycomycosis should be made early in the subclinical stage. The importance of the exploratory antrotomy in the patients with unilateral antral opacity should be emphasized again in this point of view.


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