08 April 2025
: Case report 
Acremonium strictum Sphenoid Sinusitis in an Immunocompetent Patient
Challenging differential diagnosis, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Rare disease
Yuting Wang1BCDEF, Qingzhong Liu1ACF, Huiming Sheng
2BD, Shuohui Yang3CEF*
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.946501
Am J Case Rep 2025; 26:e946501
Figure 3. Fungus morphology. (A) White and villous colonies were observed on the chocolate medium. (B) Lactophenol cotton blue staining showed the transparent separated hyphae (arrowhead) and the clustered dense bundles of circular conidia (long arrow), and some of the conidia were disrupted from clusters (short arrow) at the tips of the phialides (400×magnification).