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Cir Cir 2003; 71 (2)

Chronic invasive rhinocerebral mucormycosis

Waizel-Haiat S, Cohn-Zurita F, Vargas-Aguayo AM, Ramírez-Aceves R, Vivar-Acevedo E

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 145-149
PDF size: 83.56 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal disease that typically presents acutely in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis or immunosuppression. The case of a 55 year-old male patient is presented; the patient experienced chronic infection that involved nose, paranasal sinuses, hard palate, orbit, pterygopalatine fossa, infratemporal fossa with cavernous sinus thrombosis and compression of the internal carotid artery which develops in insidious manner after metabolic imbalance with predominantly ocular symptoms. The patient was managed with Amphotericin B and radical surgical debridement of affected tissue, the patient presenting cure without complications or added disabilities.


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