Surgical management of aggressive fungal infection involving the anterior skull base

Autor:	Dan M. Fliss, Hanoch Elran, Ilan I. Hochman, Gideon Zucker, Albert Gatot, Dov Ophir, Jacob T. Cohen
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Mucormycosis Anterior cranial Disfigurement medicine.disease Surgery Paranasal sinuses medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology medicine business Nose Orbit (anatomy) Anterior skull base
Zdroj:	Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 11:268-270
ISSN:	1043-1810
Popis:	Mucormycosis and other specific opportunistic fungi cause invasive, life-threatening infections of the nose and paranasal sinuses, usually in immunocompromized hosts. This fulminent process quickly invades the orbit and anterior cranial base. We describe the successful application of the extended subcranial approach to the anterior skull base for access and extirpation of this often lethal fungal infection in 3 patients. This surgical technique may be applied to advanced infectious processes of the anterior skull base in combination with specific antimycrobial medication without gross disfigurement of the patient and with a greater chance of recovery.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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