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Rhinosporidiosis is an infection caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi that frequently presents as a polypoidal nasal lesions. Here, we report the first indigenous case of tumoral rhinosporidiosis in Egypt. In this case, a 25-year-old male patient from a rural background of Assuit City presented with epistaxis and a nasal polyp. The patient had not traveled abroad. The diagnosis was established on the morphological basis by the identification of 5- to 10-μm endospores and 50- to 1000-μm sporangia. The clinicopathological and immunologic features were discussed and the literature was reviewed. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case of this disease to be reported in Egypt in the human literature.
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Hussein, M.R., Rashad, U.M. Rhinosporidiosis in Egypt: A case report and review of literature. Mycopathologia 159, 205–207 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-004-6388-y
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