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Name | Mucormycosis:- A Case Report |
Description | Case report:- Uday Shankar. Reddy* & Aarti.R *MDS, Oral medicine & Radiology, Perfect 32 dental Care, Pragathi nagar, Hyderabad,Andra Pradesh,India. BDS, Dental Surgeon, Perfect32 dental Care, Pragathi nagar, Hyderabad,India.
Abstract:- Mouth and jaw get infected by bacteria, virus, fungi, and protozoa. Fungus exists in the mouth, nasal cavity and maxillary antrum as normal inhabitant and in certain conditions like diabetes, debilitating disease, malignancy, burns and immunosuppressive disease fungus plays an opportunistic infection producing diseased process in mouth and jaw with destruction of tissues in the jaw bone, nasal cavity, maxillary antrum, zygomatic bone and spreads posteriorly to the base of the brain causing destruction. Mucormycosis is a serious infection caused by an opportunistic fungus. The most frequently affected area is the maxillofacial region. A case of mucormycosis of the palatal tissue in a female diabetic patient is reported.
Key Words:- Mucormycosis, Haemotologic malignancy.
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