To the question of the isolated noninvasive fungal sphenoiditis pathogenesis

Abstract

Noninvasive fungal sinusitis is a widespread disease of the top respiratory tracts. The disease can proceed a long time asymptomatically or have a clinical demonstration with a dominance of a neurologic and ophthalmologic symptomatology. This pathology is surgical disease and successfully responds to treatment. However, unlike a noninvasive mycotic affection of maxillary sinus, when the starting mechanism of mitsetoma grow is invasion of foreign body after stomatologic manipulations, the pathogenesis of the isolated fungal sphenoiditis remains diskutabelny. By analogy, it is suggested about a drift into the sphenoidal sinus under certain conditions of foreign substance, which becomes the trigger of development of a fungal body in a sinus. Based on the analysis of clinical cases we established the reference cliniko-anatomic features, which are defining in a pathogenesis of this disease and can be taken as a basis at differential diagnostics chronic bacteriemic and noninvasive fungalc sphenoiditis. In a pathogenesis deviations of a nasal septum, hypoplasia of nasal turbinates and also considerably oversize of the ostium of a sphenoid sinus have a basic meaning.

Keywords

• noninvasive fungal sphenoiditis
• mitsetoma of sphenoidal sinus
• fungal body