Rachna Rath¹, Shadab Ali Baig², Tribikram Debata^1
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, SCB Dental College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
²Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, SCB Dental College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.149207

ABSTRACT

Rhinosporidiosis, is a chronic granulomatous disease presenting as a polypoidal mass in the nasal cavity and nasopharynx caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi and is endemic in India and Sri Lanka. Diagnosis is mainly by clinical observations and is confirmed by histopathology. We report a case of atypical rhinosporidiosis that presented as an oropharyngeal mass and mimicked chronic tonsillitis. Hence possibility of this atypical rhinosporidiosis should be included in the clinical differential diagnosis of any posterior oral or oropharyngeal mass, particularly when managing patients from rural endemic areas.

Keywords: Naso-oropharyngeal rhinosporidiosis, oropharyngeal mass, rhinosporidium seebri.