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Rhinoorbitocerebral Mucormycosis with Maggots in a Neglected Diabetic Patient

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Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection in immunocompromised patients, Rhizopus species are most common, sometimes mucormycosis can be life threatening we report a case of rhinoorbitocerebral mucormycosis a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis secondarily infected by maggots with altered consciousness and metabolic decompensation.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, SMS &R, Sharda Univesity, Greater Noida, U.P., India

    Vivek Kumar Pathak, Rohit Saxena, Sanjeev Awasthi, Sushil Gaur & Sunil Kumar Singh

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Pathak, V.K., Saxena, R., Awasthi, S. et al. Rhinoorbitocerebral Mucormycosis with Maggots in a Neglected Diabetic Patient. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 70, 156–158 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-017-1171-9

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