TY - JOUR
T1 - Facial reconstruction of a mucormycosis survivor by free rectus abdominis muscle flap, tissue expansion, and ocular prosthesis
AU - Silberstein, Eldad
AU - Krieger, Yuval
AU - Rosenberg, Nir
AU - Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Alexander
AU - Shoham, Yaron
AU - Saphier, Oshra
AU - Pagkalos, Vasileios A.
AU - Joshua, Ben Zion
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Invasive sinonasal mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection that usually occurs in immunocompromised or diabetic patients, and it is often fatal. The authors present a case of a woman patient suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus and diabetes mellitus treated with prednisone, presenting with a rapidly progressive rhinoorbital-cerebral mucormycosis. She was successfully treated with combined intravenous antifungal therapy and radical debridement followed by complex defect reconstruction with a free vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap, tissue expander, and ophthalmic prosthesis.
AB - Invasive sinonasal mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection that usually occurs in immunocompromised or diabetic patients, and it is often fatal. The authors present a case of a woman patient suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus and diabetes mellitus treated with prednisone, presenting with a rapidly progressive rhinoorbital-cerebral mucormycosis. She was successfully treated with combined intravenous antifungal therapy and radical debridement followed by complex defect reconstruction with a free vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap, tissue expander, and ophthalmic prosthesis.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84913570334
U2 - 10.1097/IOP.0000000000000314
DO - 10.1097/IOP.0000000000000314
M3 - Article
C2 - 25233097
AN - SCOPUS:84913570334
SN - 0740-9303
VL - 32
SP - e131-e132
JO - Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
JF - Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
IS - 6
ER -
