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Rhinocerebral mucormycosis associated with diabetic ketoacidosis
Y A Gokhale1, Ramnath, R D Patil
1Department of Medicine, LTM Medical College, Bombay.
The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Rhinocerebral mucormycosis with hemiparesis occurred in a young woman who was not a known diabetic. Rhyzopus species grew from the initial nasal biopsy. The patient was treated with amphotericin B, in addition to control of diabetic ketoacidosis. Surgical intervention was not done. The patient died on the fourth day of hospitalisation.