title: Pulmonary mucormycosis presenting with recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 160012.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Suresh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhansali
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sridhar
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Dash
mesh_terms: 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*