Allergic fungal sinusitis

ABSTRACT

Allergic fungal sinusitis is the commonest form of fungal sinusitis which is analogous to allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in many aspects. Once looked upon as a rare disease which now seems to be increasing in incidence either due to better diagnostic criteria or due to genuine increase in the number of cases. We report a case presented as allergic fungal sinusitis with infratemporal extension and expansion with bone resorption into intracranial region in an asthmatic teenager who was treated successfully with a combination of surgery and medical interventions: