Related Experiment Videos
A rapidly fatal palatal ulcer: rhinocerebral mucormycosis
A J Van der Westhuijzen1, F W Grotepass, G Wyma
1Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, Republic of South Africa.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A case of a patient with a palatal ulcer who was in a diabetic ketoacidotic coma is described. This ulcer proved to be the presenting sign of rhinocerebral mucormycosis. The patient had hemifacial swelling, ocular signs, and gross tissue destruction and died less than 4 weeks after she was first seen.