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Cutaneous Mucormycosis: Report of a Case with Survival

Authors :
ROBERTS, H. J.
Source :
Archives of Internal Medicine; July 1962, Vol. 110 Issue: 1 p108-112, 5p
Publication Year :
1962

Abstract

Increased attention has been directed to mucormycosis over the past decade by both clinicians and pathologists. In large measure, this is attributed to the survival of patients having a variety of disorders that tend to lower host resistance or to enhance invasiveness of fungi belonging to 1 of 3 usually saprophytic genera of the family Mucoraceae (Mucor, Rhizopus, Absidia). Of 50 previously reported patients with mucormycosis, 25 were diabetics (most of whom had been severely acidotic) and 13 suffered from leukemia or lymphoma.1,2 Other predisposing disorders include myeloma, carcinoma, anemia, body burns, glomerulonephritis, acute tubular necrosis, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, ionizing radiation, and the administration of antibiotics, steroids, or folic acid antagonists in large doses or over prolonged periods.The present case report cites a young diabetic with recurrent severe acidosis in whom a large necrotic area of the skin was shown histologically to be due to such fungal

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00039926 and 15383679
Volume :
110
Issue :
1
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Archives of Internal Medicine
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
ejs28500441
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1962.03620190110017