Bronchovascular mucormycosis in the diabetic: an urgent surgical problem.
This report reviews the successful surgical experience with a diabetic patient with bronchial obstruction due to Mucorales infection. A review of the reported medical and surgical experience is included. The danger of a lethal pulmonary hemorrhage makes early surgical intervention mandatory.
Brown
R B
RB
Department of Surgery, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia.
Johnson
J H
JH
Kessinger
J M
JM
Sealy
W C
WC
D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*