Fungal Septal Abscess with Maxillary Sinus Mycetoma in an immunocompetent patient: A rare co-existing infection.

Background: Nasal septal abscess that are caused by fungal have been previously reported in the medical literature; however, they seem to beless commonly seen in immunocompetent hosts.
Methodology/Principal: We report a case non-traumatic, spontaneous of fungal septal abscess with coexisting fungal sinusitis in a healthy patient.
Conclusions: Although rare, fungal septal abscess in an immunocompetent patient can occur and this case report hope to alert the medical society about this uncommon disease.

Citation: Dayang Anis Asyikin Ahmad Nazari, Siti Halimahtun Sahab, Noorizan Yahya, Mohamad Khir Abdullah, Loo Lit Yee, Salina Husain. Fungal Septal Abscess with Maxillary Sinus Mycetoma in an immunocompetent patient: A rare co-existing infection. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52845/JORR/2021/2.3.1

Received: 02 June 2021; Revised: 15 July 2021; Accepted: 26 July 2021; Published Online: 17 August 2021

Copyright: ©2021 DAYANG ANIS ASYIKIN AHMAD NAZARI et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

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Competing interests: None

 Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.

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