Sandip Kanti Basu¹, Jayanta Bain¹, Kuntal Maity², Debarati Chattopadhyay¹, Debasis Baitalik¹, Bijay Kumar Majumdar¹, Vivek Gupta¹, Ashwini Kumar¹, Bibhas Saha Dalal³, Anu Malik^4
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
²Department of ENT, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
³Department of Pathology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
⁴Department of Ophthalmology, NDMC Medical College and Hindu Rao Hospital, New Delhi, India
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.175102

ABSTRACT

Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic localized granulomatous disease caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, an aquatic protistan parasite belonging to a clade, Mesomycetozoea. Infestation of Rhinosporidiosis to the eye and adnexa is termed oculosporidiosis, in such cases, conjunctival mucosa is mostly involved; however in our case, it involved only the lacrimal sac and deeper periorbital tissue and presented as a case of orbital swelling. Surgical excision of the lesion was done, postoperatively dapsone therapy was given for 6 months, and the patient responded very well with no recurrence till date.

Keywords: Dapsone, lacrimal sac, oculosporidiosis.