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JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages E144-E146Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e31827c7eb8
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Mucormycosis; diabetic ketoacidosis; fungus; rhino-orbital-cerebral
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Mucormycosis is a life-threatening fungal infection that occurs in immunocompromised patients. The most common predisposing risk factor for mucormycosis is diabetes mellitus. Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis is the most common form in diabetic patients and is characterized by paranasal sinusitis, ophthalmoplegia with blindness, and unilateral proptosis with cellulitis, facial pain with swelling, headache, fever, rhinitis, granular or purulent nasal discharge, nasal ulceration, epistaxis, hemiplegia or stroke, and decreased mental function. Diabetic ketoacidosis is the most common and serious acute complication of diabetic patients. We herein report 2 cases of fatal rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis.
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