Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis

Fungal osteomyelitis is a lethal opportunistic infection that affects only a small percentage of patients present to endodontists. It is a highly contagious infection that requires urgent treatment. We discuss three cases in which endodontic pathology was initially recognized but subsequent follow-u...

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Autores principales: Hotchandani, Sarang Suresh, Kalhoro, Feroze Ali, Harjani, Priya Rani, Memon, Mahwish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35846181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1976352
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author Hotchandani, Sarang Suresh
Kalhoro, Feroze Ali
Harjani, Priya Rani
Memon, Mahwish
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description Fungal osteomyelitis is a lethal opportunistic infection that affects only a small percentage of patients present to endodontists. It is a highly contagious infection that requires urgent treatment. We discuss three cases in which endodontic pathology was initially recognized but subsequent follow-up revealed severe osteolytic fungal infection of the maxilla manifesting as acute apical abscesses in the maxillary canine region. CBCT demonstrated osteolytic abnormalities, and further histology confirmed the illness was caused by mucormycosis in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and exposure to COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-92870052022-07-16 Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis Hotchandani, Sarang Suresh Kalhoro, Feroze Ali Harjani, Priya Rani Memon, Mahwish Case Rep Dent Case Report Fungal osteomyelitis is a lethal opportunistic infection that affects only a small percentage of patients present to endodontists. It is a highly contagious infection that requires urgent treatment. We discuss three cases in which endodontic pathology was initially recognized but subsequent follow-up revealed severe osteolytic fungal infection of the maxilla manifesting as acute apical abscesses in the maxillary canine region. CBCT demonstrated osteolytic abnormalities, and further histology confirmed the illness was caused by mucormycosis in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and exposure to COVID-19. Hindawi 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9287005/ /pubmed/35846181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1976352 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sarang Suresh Hotchandani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis
title_full_unstemmed Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis
title_short Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287005/
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