Isolated orbito-cerebral mucormycosis
| Autor: | Han-Cheng Wang, Hsu-Ling Yeh, Chi-Ieong Lau, Chen-Hsien Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Nasal cavity
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Fatal outcome Fulminant Eschar Eye Immunocompromised Host Fatal Outcome Occlusion Nose Diseases medicine Lethal infection Orbital Diseases Humans Mucormycosis Canthus Brain Diseases business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The neurologist. 17(3) |
| ISSN: | 2331-2637 |
| Popis: | Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis is a fatal infection in immunocompromised hosts. Prompt recognition of this clinical condition is essential for early diagnosis to avoid a delay of treatment. The presence of black eschar, usually in the nasal cavity, is the most alerting sign to the diagnosis. We present a patient with extremely fulminant ROCM in which the disease might be acquired via an orbital infection without nasal or paranasal involvement. With black eschars appearing at the bilateral canthi as the first alarm to extensive vascular involvement, the lethal infection rapidly evolved to occlusion of the bilateral ophthalmic arteries and eventually major intracranial arteries. |
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