Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report

Mucormycosis is an acute, fulminating, fungal disease that frequently involves oral, cranial, and facial structures. It is an opportunistic fatal infection which occurs in debilitating and immunosuppressive states. This report documents a rare case of localized maxillary mucormycosis in a patient wi...

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Autores principales: Rai, Shalu, Misra, Deepankar, Misra, Akansha, Jain, Ankit, Jain, Prerna, Dhawan, Ayush
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875579
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ccd.ccd_743_17
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author Rai, Shalu
Misra, Deepankar
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Jain, Ankit
Jain, Prerna
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description Mucormycosis is an acute, fulminating, fungal disease that frequently involves oral, cranial, and facial structures. It is an opportunistic fatal infection which occurs in debilitating and immunosuppressive states. This report documents a rare case of localized maxillary mucormycosis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes, with emphasis on early and prompt diagnosis of the same.
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spelling pubmed-59687012018-06-06 Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report Rai, Shalu Misra, Deepankar Misra, Akansha Jain, Ankit Jain, Prerna Dhawan, Ayush Contemp Clin Dent Case Report Mucormycosis is an acute, fulminating, fungal disease that frequently involves oral, cranial, and facial structures. It is an opportunistic fatal infection which occurs in debilitating and immunosuppressive states. This report documents a rare case of localized maxillary mucormycosis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes, with emphasis on early and prompt diagnosis of the same. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5968701/ /pubmed/29875579 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ccd.ccd_743_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Contemporary Clinical Dentistry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rai, Shalu
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Dhawan, Ayush
Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title_full Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title_short Palatal Mucormycosis Masquerading as Bacterial and Fungal Osteomyelitis: A Rare Case Report
title_sort palatal mucormycosis masquerading as bacterial and fungal osteomyelitis: a rare case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875579
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ccd.ccd_743_17
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