Year : 2015

Volume : Volume 5

Issue : Issue 2

Address for correspondence :
Dr. Pramod Kumar
pramodsharma84@gmail.com

Abstract

Background:  Rhinosporidiosis is a non-contagious, sporadic, chronic granulomatous disease of man and large domestic animals caused by a fungus called Rhinosporidium seeberi. Rhinosporidiosis has been reported from many countries but is endemic in certain parts of India, Sri Lanka and South Asia. It affects chiefly nose and nasopharynx followed by ocular tissue. It commonly presents as a vascular polypoid mass of nasal mucosa. The lesions appear pink with minute white dots, which give it a strawberry-like appearance. Rhinosporidiosis is also known to involve many rare sites and may become disseminated to occur in a generalized form. Rhinosporidiosis of the parotid duct is rare and only five reported cases could be found in the literature. Here, we report a case of Rhinosporidiosis, which clinically presented as a facial swelling indicating that fungal infections should also be considered as one of the differential diagnoses whenever facial swellings are encountered. This patient presented no signs and symptoms of Rhinosporidiosis at any other site. Keywords: Rhinosporidiosis, Periodic acid–Schiff  stain,  Endospores, sporangium  .