This study reports a case of an immunocompetent patient with right lateral rectus palsy secondary to mucormycosis infection in the sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses extending to the carvenous sinus. The patient used for this study is a healthy, well built and well nourished 14 year old girl presented with symptom of headache of 2 weeks duration. Complaint of diplopia was made on day one of admission...

A 50 year-old male with a history of chronic renal insufficiency and diabetes mellitus type 2 presented with swelling, redness and pain of the left eye for two days. He also started experiencing pain with the eye movement, itching and excessive lacrimation one day after the onset. Four hours prior to admission, he started having undocumented fever, bifrontal headaches, and blurred vision of the...

INTRODUCTION Rhinocerebral mycosis is a rapidly progressive fatal opportunistic infection, predominantly affecting people in an immunocompromised state. Aggressive surgical therapy, with repeated debridement in combination with intravenous amphotericin B can lead to a high rate of cure. AIM To determine the predictors of mortality in rhinocerebral mycosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The demograp...

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We successfully treated 3 consecutive patients who had nonneutropenic rhinocerebral zygomycosis, by use of subcutaneous granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor therapy combined with traditional surgical and medical treatment. All patients are currently free of disease. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor should be considered as adjuvant therapy for rhinocerebral zygomycosi...

We report a case of a 28-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed rhinocerebral zygomycosis during induction chemotherapy. This life-threatening fungal infection is an infrequent cause of neutropenic fever, and is occasionally found in patients with leukemia and lymphoma, or patients with severely compromised defence mechanisms due to other diseases. It is caused by moulds b...

BACKGROUND Data on the accuracy of conventional histomorphologic diagnosis are limited, especially in mucormycosis. We therefore investigated the accuracy of histomorphologic diagnosis of mucormycosis and aspergillosis, using immunohistochemistry (IHC) tests for mucormycosis and aspergillosis. METHODS Patients enrolled met the modified criteria for proven and probable mucormycosis (during a 2...