Rhinoscleroma causing severe bilateral nasal obstruction

Rhinoscleroma is a chronic, infectious and granulomatous disease of the respiratory tract. There is often a delay in diagnosis due to unfamiliarity with the disease and also because culture is not always positive. We report a case in a 26-year-old woman with granular mass obstructing bilateral nasal...

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Main Authors: Mário Augusto Pinto de Moraes, MD, Albino Verçosa de Magalhães, MD, Larissa Cardoso Marinho, MD, Ana Emília Borges de Azevedo, MD, Fabiana Pirani Carneiro, MD, Igor Teixeira Raymundo, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867010700374