Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis

We report a 53-year-old female with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus who presented with decreased vision in the right eye for a few hours duration. Orbital computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were performed at presentation and showed a thickening and infarction of the right optic nerve...

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Autores principales: Alsuhaibani, Adel H., Al-Thubaiti, Ghazai, Al Badr, Fahad B.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22837632
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.97957
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author Alsuhaibani, Adel H.
Al-Thubaiti, Ghazai
Al Badr, Fahad B.
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description We report a 53-year-old female with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus who presented with decreased vision in the right eye for a few hours duration. Orbital computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were performed at presentation and showed a thickening and infarction of the right optic nerve with no other orbital abnormalities. A few days later, the patient developed necrosis in the region of the right medial canthus and nasal mucosa. Tissue biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of mucormycosis.
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spelling pubmed-34018082012-07-26 Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis Alsuhaibani, Adel H. Al-Thubaiti, Ghazai Al Badr, Fahad B. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report We report a 53-year-old female with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus who presented with decreased vision in the right eye for a few hours duration. Orbital computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were performed at presentation and showed a thickening and infarction of the right optic nerve with no other orbital abnormalities. A few days later, the patient developed necrosis in the region of the right medial canthus and nasal mucosa. Tissue biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of mucormycosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3401808/ /pubmed/22837632 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.97957 Text en Copyright: © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Alsuhaibani, Adel H.
Al-Thubaiti, Ghazai
Al Badr, Fahad B.
Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title_full Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title_fullStr Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title_full_unstemmed Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title_short Optic Nerve Thickening and Infarction as the First Evidence of Orbital Involvement with Mucormycosis
title_sort optic nerve thickening and infarction as the first evidence of orbital involvement with mucormycosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22837632
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.97957
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