The Endonasal Endoscopic Approach to Different Sinonasal Fungal Balls

Table 1

Summarizes the total of 16 patients included in the study illustrating their characteristics, presenting symptoms, and fungal ball culture results.

Patient no.	Sex	Age	Presenting symptoms	Diagnosis	Fungal culture result
Maxillary fungal ball
1	Female	33	Facial pain and postnasal discharge	Fungal ball	−ve culture
2	Female	40	Postnasal discharge and cough		−ve culture
3	Male	35	Right facial fullness		−ve culture
4	Female	40	Facial pressure and postnasal discharge		−ve culture
5	Female	35	Postnasal discharge and cough		−+ve Aspergillum
6	Female	45	Facial pain		−ve culture
Sphenoid fungal ball
7	Male	43	Postnasal discharge	Fungal ball	+ve Aspergillum
8	Female	31	Postnasal discharge		−ve culture
9	Male	39	Headache and postnasal discharge		−ve culture
10	Female	37	Cough and postnasal discharge		−ve culture
11	Female	35	Headache and postnasal discharge		−ve culture
12	Male	14	Asymptomatic		−ve culture
13	Female	46	Headache and postnasal discharge		−ve culture
14	Male	35	Headache		−ve culture
Simultaneous occurrence of maxillary and sphenoid fungal ball
15	Female	52	Headache, facial pain, and postnasal discharge	Fungal ball	−ve culture
Post endonasal endoscopic pituitary surgery for pituitary adenoma
16	Female	35	Occipital headache	Fungal ball	−ve culture