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Rare Complications of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Khang-Loon Ho, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1979;105(5):279-281.

Abstract
• Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a short-term and often rapidly lethal fungal disease. It is generally seen in uncontrolled cases of diabetes with ketoacidosis. This case exhibits many of the features of a typical fulminating rhinocerebral mucormycosis. However, the fatal complications of acute subdural hematoma and massive intracerebral hemorrhage due to rupture of aneurysm, as demonstrated by angiography, are unique clinical manifestations of patients with rhinocerebral mucormycosis.

(Arch Otolaryngol 105:279-281, 1979)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 28, 1978.

Reprint requests to Department of Pathology, 9275 Scott Hall, 540 E Canfield Ave, Detroit, MI 48201 (Dr Ho).