Medical Must-See: Perforated palate points to rare fungal infection
The treating doctors initially suspected lymphoma, but oral and nasal biopsies revealed something else.
A spicy meal was a harbinger of more pain to come for one unfortunate teen in China, who was diagnosed with a rare fungal infection after developing a smelly, mulch-filled palatal hole.
Doctors say the otherwise healthy 18-year-old, who worked in textile and frozen food warehouses, first noticed a purplish lash on the central palatal mucosa after drinking and eating spicy food.
