title: Auricular mucormycosis: a case report.
abstract: Mucormycosis is a rare, saprophytic, invasive, and fulminant fungal disease. It occurs in immunocompromised patients such as those with diabetes mellitus or blood dyscrasia, or in patients under immunosuppressive therapy. A 17-year-old female patient with diabetic ketoacidosis presented with a black-colored lesion in the auricle and external ear canal. Physical examination showed necrosis of the auricle, external ear canal, and neighboring skin. She also had facial paralysis. Debridement of the necrotic tissues was performed and the samples were submitted for microbiologic and histopathologic examination, which showed nonseptate hyphae. Postoperatively, systemic amphotericin B was empirically administered. The patient died on the seventh day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey. farukoktay@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M Faruk
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Oktay
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Askar
authors.forename: Nihal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kilinç
authors.forename: Alpaslan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tuzcu
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Topçu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016883:Diabetic Ketoacidosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004431:Ear, External / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography