title: Acute rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis.
abstract: Report of the typical clinical course and pathological findings in acute rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis following diabetic coma. Invasion of orbital nerves by the fungus with neural and perineural changes may contribute to the neuroophthalmological symptoms in this disease besides the predilection for blood vessels with consequent thrombosis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003926:Diabetic Coma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000473:pathology