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[Gastric mucormycosis in an immunocompetent child]
Ana Flores Chávez1, Lourdes Rodriguez Temoche2, Karen Alarcón Rojas3
1Médico Pediatra. Servicio de Medicina B, Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño. Lima, Perú; Docente de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú.
Abstract:
Mucormycosis is a rare, usually fatal, opportunistic infection that mostly affects people with immune deficiency or associated pathologies. There are few reports of this disease in patients without the traditional risk factors, still unknown what could be the real predisposing causes involved. The forms of presentation are rhinocerebral, cutaneous, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and disseminated. This is why, due to the difficult diagnosis, high mortality and uncommon presentation, we report the case of a 4-year-old child without immunodeficiency or background pathologies who developed an esophagogastric mucormycosis.
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