Severe mycosis as a rare infection after a corn auger injury of the hand: a case report

Mucormycosis is a rare but serious infection that can be seen in immunocompetent individuals who experience traumatic injury. The authors report a case in a 28 year-old man who sustained a mangling hand injury in a corn augur accident. After initial aggressive debridement ongoing tissue necrosis was...

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Autores principales: Bowles, Richard J, Mitchell, Justin J, Price, Connie, Ipaktchi, Kyros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28428824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-015-0061-x
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description Mucormycosis is a rare but serious infection that can be seen in immunocompetent individuals who experience traumatic injury. The authors report a case in a 28 year-old man who sustained a mangling hand injury in a corn augur accident. After initial aggressive debridement ongoing tissue necrosis was seen, and in subsequent biopsies invasive mucormycosis was diagnosed. The patient was successfully managed with immediate surgical debridement and antifungal medication and showed no sign of infection at six-month follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-53958552017-04-20 Severe mycosis as a rare infection after a corn auger injury of the hand: a case report Bowles, Richard J Mitchell, Justin J Price, Connie Ipaktchi, Kyros Patient Saf Surg Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare but serious infection that can be seen in immunocompetent individuals who experience traumatic injury. The authors report a case in a 28 year-old man who sustained a mangling hand injury in a corn augur accident. After initial aggressive debridement ongoing tissue necrosis was seen, and in subsequent biopsies invasive mucormycosis was diagnosed. The patient was successfully managed with immediate surgical debridement and antifungal medication and showed no sign of infection at six-month follow-up. BioMed Central 2015-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5395855/ /pubmed/28428824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-015-0061-x Text en © Bowles et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Severe mycosis as a rare infection after a corn auger injury of the hand: a case report
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