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Rhinoorbitocerebral Mucormycosis with Maggots in a Neglected Diabetic Patient.

Vivek Kumar Pathak1, Rohit Saxena1, Sanjeev Awasthi1, Sushil Gaur1, Sunil Kumar Singh1.   

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection in immunocompromised patients, Rhizopus species are most common, sometimes mucormycosis can be life threatening we report a case of rhinoorbitocerebral mucormycosis a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis secondarily infected by maggots with altered consciousness and metabolic decompensation.

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Keywords:  Anterior cerebral artery (ACA); Comlete blood count (CBC); Noncontrast computed tomography (NCCT); Random blood sugar (RBS); Rhinoorbitocerebral (ROC)

Year:  2017        PMID： 29456961      PMCID： PMC5807284          DOI： 10.1007/s12070-017-1171-9

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg        ISSN： 2231-3796


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