Time to speed up the diagnostic evaluation in clinically suspected rhinosinusitis patients: A debate on the conventional versus molecular workup to establish fungal infective etiology for prompt management

• Main Authors: Uneza Husain (Author), Ragini Tilak (Author), Sushil Aggarwal (Author), Ketan Priyadarshi (Author), Neeraj Dhameja (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Purpose: Rhinosinusitis (RS) is a clinical and radiological diagnosis that rarely reaches a proper infective etiological diagnosis. The most dreaded fact about invasive fungal rhinosinusitis is its poor prognosis in immunocompromised patients with a 60-80% mortality rate. The present...