title: Acute optic nerve infarction demonstrated by diffusion-weighted imaging in a case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis.
abstract: A 60-year-old woman developed right-eye vision loss secondary to rhinocerebral mucormycosis. Routine MR imaging sequences including enhanced MR imaging showed normal optic nerves, but a diffusion-weighted sequence and apparent diffusion coefficient maps revealed markedly restricted diffusion in the right optic nerve. This MR imaging abnormality of optic nerve infarction due to mucormycosis has not been reported previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, Ill, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mathur
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Mafee
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001766:Blindness / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*