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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Hai
• Liu, Gang
• Hang, Wei
• Zhang, Jinling

Titel

Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis: report of 9 cases

Ist Teil von

• Zhonghua er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery, 2014-06, Vol.49 (6), p.446

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To present the clinical characteristics and combination therapy of rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. The clinical data of 9 patients with rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis treated between January 2008 and January 2013 were analyzed retrospectively. The clinical features, diagnosis, pathological characteristics, surgical technique and combination therapy were summarized. All the patients were treated with nasal endoscopic surgery and combined drug therapy. Nine patients were under the state of systemic immunosuppression. Two patients died of intracranial infection. One patient with the symptom of headache was first alleviated after treatment, with visual acuity recovered partially, but this patient died 4 months later due to recurrence of mucormycosis and intracranial infection. Two patients with headache recovered after treatment, the visual acuity recovered to the hand movement, endoscopic examination of surgical cavity was clean and epithelialized, with no recurrence, still alive 5 years up to now. The s