Department of Ophthalmology, Raipur Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India
Case Report
A Case Series on Ocular Rhinosporidiosis
Author(s): SL Adile*, Shashank Bais and Nidhi Pandey
Rhinosporidiosis is caused by the pathogen Rhinosporidium sieberi, now thought to be a fungal-like parasite of the eukaryotic group Mesomycetozoea. It is usually a benign disease with slowly growing polypoid lesions in the nose, nasopharynx, or eyes. The clinical features are characteristics of a painless, friable, mostly unilateral polypoid mass guide the diagnosis, whereas the gold standard for diagnosis is histopathologic findings... View more»