Primary Breast Mucormycosis, A Case Report

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by organisms of the order Mucorales often occurring in diabetics or immunologically compromised patients. To date, only one case of primary mucormycosis of breast has been reported in the English literature. We describe a further case of mucormycosis th...

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Autores principales: Baezzat, S R, Fazelzadeh, A, Tahmasebi, S, Kumar, P V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22737465
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author Baezzat, S R
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description Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by organisms of the order Mucorales often occurring in diabetics or immunologically compromised patients. To date, only one case of primary mucormycosis of breast has been reported in the English literature. We describe a further case of mucormycosis that was localized to the breast in a patient with no underlying disease and was successfully treated with a simple mastectomy and intravenous antifungal therapy.
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spelling pubmed-33719442012-06-21 Primary Breast Mucormycosis, A Case Report Baezzat, S R Fazelzadeh, A Tahmasebi, S Kumar, P V Iran Red Crescent Med J Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by organisms of the order Mucorales often occurring in diabetics or immunologically compromised patients. To date, only one case of primary mucormycosis of breast has been reported in the English literature. We describe a further case of mucormycosis that was localized to the breast in a patient with no underlying disease and was successfully treated with a simple mastectomy and intravenous antifungal therapy. Kowsar 2011-03 2011-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3371944/ /pubmed/22737465 Text en Copyright © 2011, Kowsar M.P. Co. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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