Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis and aspergillosis: Differential diagnosis and treatment

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-76

  Arndt, Susan ^a   Aschendorff, Antje ^a   Echternach, Matthias ^b   Daemmrich, Tanja Daniela ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b University of Music Freiburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior skull base; Aspergillosis; Mucormycosis; Opportunistic infections; Surgery of the paranasal sinuses

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; ETHMOIDECTOMY; EVISCERATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARANASAL SINUS; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHINO CEREBRAL ORBITAL ASPERGILLOSIS; RHINO CEREBRAL ORBITAL MUCORMYCOSIS; SAPROTROPH; SINUSITIS; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORBITAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57149135844     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-008-0692-y     Document Type: Article

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