title: Enucleation Caused by Fusarium Infection in a Child With Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.
abstract: Fusarium species are a known cause of ocular infection that can produce local and/or systemic invasive fusariosis. Fusarium ocular infection can evolve to keratitis, endophthalmitis and, in extreme cases, ocular perforation. We report, for the first time in children, the case of a 5 year old girl diagnosed with toxic epidermal necrolysis who developed Fusarium ocular infection requiring ocular enucleation.
authors.affiliation: From the *Pediatric Service, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; †Pediatric Critical Care Service. Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús. Madrid, Spain; ‡Pediatric Ophthalmology Service, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain; §Pediatric Anatomical Pathology Service; Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain; and ¶Pediatric Dermatology Service, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barranco-Fernández
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Salido
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nieto-Moro
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sierra-Colomina
authors.forename: Belén
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gutierrez-Partida
authors.forename: Inmaculada
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Prada-Vicente
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torrelo-Fernández
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serrano-González
mesh_terms: D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002675:Child, Preschool; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D015353:Eye Enucleation; D015821:Eye Infections, Fungal / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D005145:Face / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D060585:Fusariosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013262:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents