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Basu SK, Bain J, Maity K, et al. Rhinosporidiosis of lacrimal sac: An interesting case of orbital swelling. J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2016;7(1):98-101doi: 10.4103/0976-9668.175102.
Basu, S. K., Bain, J., Maity, K., Chattopadhyay, D., Baitalik, D., Majumdar, B. K., Gupta, V., Kumar, A., Dalal, B. S., & Malik, A. (2016). Rhinosporidiosis of lacrimal sac: An interesting case of orbital swelling. Journal of natural science, biology, and medicine, 7(1), 98-101. https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.175102
Basu, Sandip Kanti, et al. "Rhinosporidiosis of lacrimal sac: An interesting case of orbital swelling." Journal of natural science, biology, and medicine vol. 7,1 (2016): 98-101. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.175102
Basu SK, Bain J, Maity K, Chattopadhyay D, Baitalik D, Majumdar BK, Gupta V, Kumar A, Dalal BS, Malik A. Rhinosporidiosis of lacrimal sac: An interesting case of orbital swelling. J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2016 Jan-Jun;7(1):98-101. doi: 10.4103/0976-9668.175102. PMID: 27003980; PMCID: PMC4780178.
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J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2016 Jan-Jun;7(1):98-101. doi: 10.4103/0976-9668.175102.

Rhinosporidiosis of lacrimal sac: An interesting case of orbital swelling.

Journal of natural science, biology, and medicine

Sandip Kanti Basu, Jayanta Bain, Kuntal Maity, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Debasis Baitalik, Bijay Kumar Majumdar, Vivek Gupta, Ashwini Kumar, Bibhas Saha Dalal, Anu Malik

Affiliations

  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
  2. Department of ENT, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
  3. Department of Pathology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
  4. Department of Ophthalmology, NDMC Medical College and Hindu Rao Hospital, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 27003980 PMCID: PMC4780178 DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.175102

Abstract

Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic localized granulomatous disease caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, an aquatic protistan parasite belonging to a clade, Mesomycetozoea. Infestation of Rhinosporidiosis to the eye and adnexa is termed oculosporidiosis, in such cases, conjunctival mucosa is mostly involved; however in our case, it involved only the lacrimal sac and deeper periorbital tissue and presented as a case of orbital swelling. Surgical excision of the lesion was done, postoperatively dapsone therapy was given for 6 months, and the patient responded very well with no recurrence till date.

Keywords: Dapsone; lacrimal sac; oculosporidiosis

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