Mucormycosis with Orbital Apex Syndrome in a Renal Transplant Recipient

Mucormycosis is a rarely encountered invasive fungal infection with high mortality.Solid organ transplantation is one of the risk factors for mucormycosis. Mucormycosis can be classified in six different groups according to the anatomical localization; rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, disseminated, and other less common involvements. This paper presented a mucormycosis case with rhinoorbitocerebral involvementin a renal transplantation receiver, which manifested with orbital apex syndrome. [Cukurova Med J 2015; 40(2.000): 384-389].

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi - 40(2015), 2, Seite 384-389

Sprache:

Englisch ; Türkisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ebru Kursun [VerfasserIn]
Tuba Turunc [VerfasserIn]
Yusuf Ziya Demiroglu [VerfasserIn]
Hakan Yabanoglu [VerfasserIn]
senay Demir [VerfasserIn]
Kenan Caliskan [VerfasserIn]
Gokhan Moray [VerfasserIn]
Hande Arslan [VerfasserIn]
Mehmet Haberal [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Medicine
Medicine (General)
Mucormycosis
Orbital apex syndrome
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Solid organ transplantation

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