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A Case of Chronic Invasive Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis with Pott’s Puffy Tumor
- Source :
- Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 63:375-380
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2020.
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Abstract
- Mucormycosis is one of the most fatal and rapidly progressive fungal infections in humans; among its many forms. rhinocerebral mucormycosis is the most common. It is known to occur as opportunistic infection in patients with uncontrolled diabetes, metabolic disorders, organ transplantation, or autoimmune disease with prolonged steroid use. Pott’s puffy tumor is the subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone caused by trauma complication or frontal sinusitis. It is considered as a very rare complication since the dawn of antibiotic treatments. We report a case of chronic rhinocerebral mucormycosis involving Pott’s puffy tumor in a patient receiving immunosuppressive therapy after lung transplantation.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
030106 microbiology
Mucormycosis
medicine.disease
Dermatology
Pott Puffy Tumor
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Otorhinolaryngology
medicine
Lung transplantation
Surgery
Pott's puffy tumor
030223 otorhinolaryngology
business
Rhinocerebral mucormycosis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20925859
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9828366e297264dcd6d1a8b68e2b76ba