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, Albino Verçosa de Magalhães, Larissa Cardoso Marinho, Ana Emília Borges de Azevedo, Fabiana Pirani Carneiro, Igor Teixeira Raymundo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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