sinus fungal mycetoma
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Paranasal sinuses mycetomas, or fungus balls, are indolent and non-invasive fungal colonization of the paranasal sinuses.
Pathology
Pathogenesis is thought to be a cascade of processes from insufficient mucociliary clearance leading to sinus colonization and chronic inflammatory response. The patient may only have a mild symptom or be asymptomatic.
Radiographic features
CT
Commonly only a single sinus is affected by the predilection for the maxillary sinus followed by the sphenoid sinus. The frontal and ethmoid are less often affected. A clue to the diagnosis includes soft tissue density within the sinus with/without foci of calcific deposit. Postobstructive change may be observed if the mycetoma obstructs the sinus drainage pathway leading to partial or complete sinus opacification .
Evidence of chronic inflammation with sclerosis and thickening of the wall of the paranasal sinuses. Careful evaluation of the sinus cavity is prudent to exclude bone erosion that is not a feature of mycetoma / chronic fungal sinusitis rather a feature of acute invasive fungal sinusitis .
MRI
MRI signal characteristics of mycetomas reflect the internal content of the mycelia, vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a conglomerate of hyphae. This contains primarily carbohydrates with some glycoproteins, macromolecular proteins, and iron and manganese.
Signal characteristics
- T1: low signal
- T2: low signal. The presences of paramagnetic elements further shorten the relaxation times, and this can be a highlight on the susceptibility weighted sequence
- T1 C+ (Gd): chronic inflammatory change of the sinus mucosa may enhance
Differential diagnosis
- allergic fungal sinusitis
- chronic invasive fungal sinusitis
- bone erosion
- soft tissue invasion
- immunocompromised patients
- paranasal sinus mucocele
- sinonasal inverted papilloma
Siehe auch:
- Sinus maxillaris
- Invertiertes Papillom
- invasive Aspergillose der Nasennebenhöhlen
- chronisch invasive fungale Sinusitis
- Aspergillom Sinus sphenoidalis
- sinunasale Tuberkulose
- immunodeficiency
- fungale Sinusitis
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