Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma

Mucormycosis is a rare, fatal angioinvasive infection occurring in immunocompromised individuals. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is rare variety with high mortality rate. We present a case of GI mucormycosis in a 2-year-old male child who presented with abdominal mass with no underlying risk factors....

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Autores principales: Nidhi, Mahajan, Sadia, Khanam, Khatri, Arti, Arnab, Ghosh, Khan, Niyaz Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31667050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.07.007
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author Nidhi, Mahajan
Sadia, Khanam
Khatri, Arti
Arnab, Ghosh
Khan, Niyaz Ahmed
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description Mucormycosis is a rare, fatal angioinvasive infection occurring in immunocompromised individuals. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is rare variety with high mortality rate. We present a case of GI mucormycosis in a 2-year-old male child who presented with abdominal mass with no underlying risk factors. The aim of this case report is to emphasize on its etiopathogenesis and keeping mucormycosis high in the differential diagnosis in a child presenting with abdominal mass.
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spelling pubmed-68119922019-10-30 Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma Nidhi, Mahajan Sadia, Khanam Khatri, Arti Arnab, Ghosh Khan, Niyaz Ahmed Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare, fatal angioinvasive infection occurring in immunocompromised individuals. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is rare variety with high mortality rate. We present a case of GI mucormycosis in a 2-year-old male child who presented with abdominal mass with no underlying risk factors. The aim of this case report is to emphasize on its etiopathogenesis and keeping mucormycosis high in the differential diagnosis in a child presenting with abdominal mass. Elsevier 2019-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6811992/ /pubmed/31667050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.07.007 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nidhi, Mahajan
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Arnab, Ghosh
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Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title_full Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title_fullStr Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title_short Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: A clinical and radiological enigma
title_sort gastrointestinal mucormycosis in a two-year-old child: a clinical and radiological enigma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31667050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.07.007
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