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Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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VIII. Rinosporidiosis

Case 54. Rinosporidiosis / Dermoid

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Fig. 54-A1

Fig. 54-A1
Fig. 54-A1: Rhinosporidiosis

A 10-years old girl from the State of Barinas / Venezuela presents in her left eye a roundish, dark red coloured tumor in the conjunctiva, surrounded by hyperaemic vessels. The tumor has a diameter of one cm and a thickness of 2 mm. Clinically, a papilloma of the conjunctiva is assumed. This fungal infection, mostly occurring as a tumor-like lesion which clinically is diagnosed frequently as a polyp or papilloma before the fungal character of the lesion is confirmed histologically. The flatlands of Venezuela (the so called Llanos) with their big rivers are an endemic region for this fungal infection. It occurs almost never in the mountainous zones of the country.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela