Materials and Methods:
The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics committee of our
institute and conformed to the ethical standards laid down in the
Declaration of Helsinki. This manuscript preparation followed the
principles of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and guidelines of
STROBE (The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in
Epidemiology) statement. Informed consent was taken from all patients
recruited for the study.
The study was a prospective observational study on AFRS patients in a
tertiary care teaching hospital. Patients with chronic systemic illness
and those undergoing revision surgery were excluded. AFRS was diagnosed
based on Bent and Kuhn’s criteria.4 Based on the
literature, as it was difficult to fulfill all criteria, especially a
positive fungal culture, we came to a diagnosis based on clinical,
radiological, and histopathological reports.5, 6