Learn the essential facts about fungal sinus infections, from recognizing early warning signs to understanding treatment ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO A fungal sinus infection, also called fungal sinusitis, is when fungus causes an ...

Mycetoma, more properly called fungus ball, expands within the confines of an immunocompetent, nonatopic host sinus and does not invade or penetrate the sinus mucosa. Aspergillus is the primary ...

The same scenario in a nonatopic host may result in a fungus ball or no sinus disease. Histologic examination demonstrates allergic mucin containing sheets of eosinophils, necrotic eosinophils ...

If the chronic sinusitis is due to noninvasive fungal sinusitis (where a mass of fungi grows in what's called a fungal ball), it will cause only a few symptoms. This may include a feeling of ...