Catalog

Allergic aspergillus rhinosinusitis

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Link to WHO Definition

Allergic aspergillus rhinosinusitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1350266891

Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a noninvasive form of highly recurrent chronic allergic hypertrophic rhinosinusitis, with nasal polyps and occasionally proptosis. It shows the presence of eosinophilic-lymphocytic sinus mucosal inflammation, extramucosal allergic mucin and scattered silver stain positive fungal hyphae within the allergic mucin but not in the mucosa.