
The mucormycosis is an opportunistic mycosis which has a high rate of global mortality with a bad prognosis. The present clinical case shows a patient attended in the Intensive Care Unit because of a breathing insufficiency secondary to a pneumonia. Among his antecedents there is a larynx carcinoma totally remittent after chemo- and radiotherapy. He develops an infrapalpebral injury which spreads rapidly in a bilateral way acquiring a necrotic look that it did not have initially. Having that evolution, it is implemented a treatment with liposomal amphotericin B and granulocyte colony-stimulating factors after an injury biopsy, whose posterior cultive shows growing of Mucor. This kind of pathology must be initially suspected in all the patients with a neoplasia and its treatment must be early and agressive. At the moment the diagnosis is suspected there is a great tissue destruction and for that reason the patients usually die in spite of the instauration of aggressive therapies
Male, Malnutrition, Eyelids, Opportunistic Infections, Combined Modality Therapy, Immunocompromised Host, Fatal Outcome, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Wound Infection, Blepharoptosis, Exophthalmos, Humans, Mucormycosis, Laryngeal Neoplasms
Male, Malnutrition, Eyelids, Opportunistic Infections, Combined Modality Therapy, Immunocompromised Host, Fatal Outcome, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Wound Infection, Blepharoptosis, Exophthalmos, Humans, Mucormycosis, Laryngeal Neoplasms
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