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Volume 30, Number 4—April 2024
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Case Report of Nasal Rhinosporidiosis in South Africa

Huzaifah Mayet, Denasha L. Reddy, Tika Bello Alvarez, Yahya Atiya, Nelesh P. Govender, Monica BirkheadComments to Author , Tsidiso Maphanga, and Sugeshnee Pather
Author affiliations: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (H. Mayet, D.L. Reddy, T. Bello Alvarez, Y. Atiya, N.P. Govender, S. Pather); Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg (H. Mayet, D.L. Reddy, T. Bello Alvarez, Y. Atiya, S. Pather); St George’s University of London, London, UK (N.P. Govender); University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (N.P. Govender); University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (N.P. Govender); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg (N.P. Govender, M. Birkhead, T. Maphanga); National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg (S. Pather)

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Figure 2

Macromorphology of excised recurrent nasal polyp from a 24-year-old Black woman with rhinosporidiosis, South Africa. A) Intraoperative endoscopic image of mass in right nasal cavity. B) Polypoid, oval mass measuring 15 mm. C) Stalk that attached the mass to the nasal septum. D) Portion of the pedunculated polyp (arrowhead) dotted with developing and mature sporangia (arrows). Scale bar = 1 mm. E) Surface of tissue with multiple sporangia in various stages of maturity, with the chitinous wall thickening during maturation (arrow). Scale bar = 150 μm.

Figure 2. Macromorphology of excised recurrent nasal polyp from a 24-year-old Black woman with rhinosporidiosis, South Africa. A) Intraoperative endoscopic image of mass in right nasal cavity. B) Polypoid, oval mass measuring 15 mm. C) Stalk that attached the mass to the nasal septum. D) Portion of the pedunculated polyp (arrowhead) dotted with developing and mature sporangia (arrows). Scale bar = 1 mm. E) Surface of tissue with multiple sporangia in various stages of maturity, with the chitinous wall thickening during maturation (arrow). Scale bar = 150 μm.

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