title: [Chronic invasive rhinocerebral mucormycosis].
abstract: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal disease that typically presents acutely in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis or immunosuppression. The case of a 55 year-old male patient is presented; the patient experienced chronic infection that involved nose, paranasal sinuses, hard palate, orbit, pterygopalatine fossa, infratemporal fossa with cavernous sinus thrombosis and compression of the internal carotid artery which develops in insidious manner after metabolic imbalance with predominantly ocular symptoms. The patient was managed with Amphotericin B and radical surgical debridement of affected tissue, the patient presenting cure without complications or added disabilities.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. swaizel@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Salomón
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Waizel-Haiat
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cohn-Zurita
authors.forename: Alejandro Martín
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Vargas-Aguayo
authors.forename: Rocío
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Aceves
authors.forename: Eulalio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vivar-Acevedo
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy; D020314:Central Nervous System Fungal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy