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rhinoscleroma

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rhinoscleroma [‚rīn·ə·sklə′rō·mə]
(medicine)
A chronic infectious bacterial disease caused byKlebsiella rhinoscleromatisand characterized by hard nodules and plaques of inflamed tissue in the nose and adjacent areas.


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The clinical and microscopic manifestation of SHML should be differentiated from malignant lymphoreticular neoplasias, such as Hodgkin's disease and monocytic leukemia, histiocytosis, rhinoscleroma, tuberculosis, juvenile xanthogranuloma, dermatofibromas, and eosinophilic granuloma, among others.
Classification of nasal granulomas Infectious Mycobacterial: Tuberculosis (human, bovine, or avian); atypical tuberculo- sis; leprosy Bacterial: Rhinoscleroma Treponemal: Syphilis; yaws Fungal: Mucormycosis; aspergillosis; blastomycosis; histoplasmosis; coccidiomycosis; rhinosporidiosis Parasitic: Leishmaniasis Noninfectious Wegener's granulomatosis Sarcoidosis Inclusion granuloma (silicosis; berylliosis) Foreign-body retention Malignant Lethal midline granuloma Nonspecific
syphilis, rhinoscleroma, and rhinosporidiosis), and fungal granulomas (e.
 
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