1. An Unexpected Host in a Soft-Tissue Lesion of Thigh
- Author
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S M Sarfaraj, Chhanda Datta, Moumita Sengupta, Uttara Chatterjee, and Kavita Jain
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Provisional diagnosis ,rhinosporidiosis ,030106 microbiology ,Immunology ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Nasal Mass ,Thigh ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Cyst ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Soft tissue lesion ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,soft-tissue swelling ,histopathology ,Rhinosporidiosis ,Histopathology ,Radiology ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,business - Abstract
Rhinosporidiosis is an enigmatic entity and poses a major health problem in the developing countries of South-East Asia. A soft friable polypoid nasal mass is the most common presentation, while sparse literature is available on extranasal involvement. We describe the case of a 35-year-old female patient who presented with a slow-growing soft-tissue swelling with ulceration over the thigh. On clinical and radiological examination, a provisional diagnosis of soft-tissue neoplasm was made. After resection, histopathological sections showed a closely packed cyst with innumerable endospores. The present case report documents the rare occurrence of an incidentally detected cutaneous rhinosporidiosis causing diagnostic difficulty.
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- 2020