Post-Covid mucormycosis presenting as retropharyngeal abscess: a rare case report

BACKGROUND: Post-Covid retropharyngeal mucormycosis is a rare presentation, and no case has been reported in literature until date. CASE PRESENTATION: A-32-year-old female post Covid presented to our OPD with history of dysphagia and with a history of steroid intake. Radiology confirmed it as retrop...

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Autores principales: Jain, Rajat, Agarwal, Devisha, Singh, Abhishek Bahadur, Verma, Veerendra, Singh, Hitendra Prakash, Kumar, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9284500/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43163-022-00274-2
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author Jain, Rajat
Agarwal, Devisha
Singh, Abhishek Bahadur
Verma, Veerendra
Singh, Hitendra Prakash
Kumar, Sunil
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description BACKGROUND: Post-Covid retropharyngeal mucormycosis is a rare presentation, and no case has been reported in literature until date. CASE PRESENTATION: A-32-year-old female post Covid presented to our OPD with history of dysphagia and with a history of steroid intake. Radiology confirmed it as retropharyngeal abscess. Endoscopic-guided aspiration was done. HPE (histopathological examination) revealed classic broad aseptate hyphae of mucormycosis. Patient was managed conservatively with broad-spectrum antifungal. CONCLUSION: Retropharyngeal mucormycosis is a rare entity in Covid era. Rapid diagnosis and management are needed to save life of an individual, or results could be fatal.
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spelling pubmed-92845002022-07-15 Post-Covid mucormycosis presenting as retropharyngeal abscess: a rare case report Jain, Rajat Agarwal, Devisha Singh, Abhishek Bahadur Verma, Veerendra Singh, Hitendra Prakash Kumar, Sunil Egypt J Otolaryngol Case Report BACKGROUND: Post-Covid retropharyngeal mucormycosis is a rare presentation, and no case has been reported in literature until date. CASE PRESENTATION: A-32-year-old female post Covid presented to our OPD with history of dysphagia and with a history of steroid intake. Radiology confirmed it as retropharyngeal abscess. Endoscopic-guided aspiration was done. HPE (histopathological examination) revealed classic broad aseptate hyphae of mucormycosis. Patient was managed conservatively with broad-spectrum antifungal. CONCLUSION: Retropharyngeal mucormycosis is a rare entity in Covid era. Rapid diagnosis and management are needed to save life of an individual, or results could be fatal. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-07-15 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9284500/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43163-022-00274-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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