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  • Title: [Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis: clinical presentation].
    Author: Borruat JS, Borruat FX, Ducrey N, Uffer S, Pasche P, Maire R.
    Journal: Klin Monbl Augenheilkd; 1998 May; 212(5):413-5. PubMed ID: 9677596.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis is an opportunistic rapidly progressive infection affecting almost exclusively diabetic or immunocompromised patients. CASE REPORTS: Three cases are reported. For one patient mucormycosis was the first manifestation of juvenile diabetes and the evolution was favorable. In the second case the infection affected a known diabetic patient and the clinical course was fatal. The third patient was immunocompromised, showed mild clinical features and a rapidly fatal evolution, the diagnosis being made only postmortem. CONCLUSION: These three cases illustrate the wide clinical spectrum of rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis, its serious nature and difficult diagnosis.
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