Pulmonary mucormycosis presenting with recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy.
Pulmonary mucormycosis is an uncommon infection and its endobronchial form is rare. Fever, cough, dyspnoea and hemoptysis are the usual presenting symptoms. Hoarseness of voice, a rare manifestation of endobronchial mucormycosis, has been reported earlier but its exact anatomical basis was unclear. We report an instance of polypoid endobronchial mucormycosis and vocal cord paralysis in a patient with type I diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Department of Endocrinology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 160012.
Bhansali
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Sridhar
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Dash
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D000328:Adult; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*