title: [Long-term survival in rhino-mucormycosis after conservative treatment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We describe a case of rhino-mucormycosis, in a 52-year-old male, with diabetes mellitus type 2, III cranial nerve palsy and blindness due to obliteration of central retinal artery and vein of the right eye The patient was treated with anfotericin B and necrotic tissues exeresis of nasal and paranasal (ethmoidal, maxillar and esfenoidal) sinuses, without orbital exenteration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After a follow up of five years, no type of relapse was detected, but neovascular glaucoma developed.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Oftalmología, Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital Universitario San Joan de Reus, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía, Universidad Rovira y Virgili.
authors.lastname: Romero Aroca P
authors.lastname: Salvat Serra M
authors.lastname: Perena Soriano F
authors.lastname: Enjuanes Prades J
authors.lastname: del Castillo Dejardin D
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000628:therapy*; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate; D017741:Survivors; D013997:Time Factors