Image 5. Oral itraconazole pulse therapy was given to the patient (200 mg twice daily for 1 week, with 3 weeks off between successive pulses, for four pulses) and treatment was successful.
This patient was 28 yr old with adult lymphocytic leukaemia. She received induction chemotherapy and this infection developed 2 days after recovering from neutropenia.
Eosinophilic mucin with A. flavus in the nasal cavity. Irregular crust of 2.5 cm from a patient diagnosed as allergic fungal sinusitis. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis
GMS stain of eosinophilic mucin reveals a darkly stained dichotomously branched A. flavus hyphae within cellular background. Patient with allergic fungal sinusitis