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KMID : 0361020200630080375
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Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2020 Volume.63 No. 8 p.375 ~ p.380
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A Case of Chronic Invasive Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis with Pott’s Puffy Tumor
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Lee Chan
Choi Sung-Eun
Cho Hyung-Ju
Ha Jong-Gyun
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Abstract
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Mucormycosis is one of the most fatal and rapidly progressive fungal infections in humans; among its many forms. rhinocerebral mucormycosis is the most common. It is known to occur as opportunistic infection in patients with uncontrolled diabetes, metabolic disorders, organ transplantation, or autoimmune disease with prolonged steroid use. Pott’s puffy tumor is the subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone caused by trauma complication or frontal sinusitis. It is considered as a very rare complication since the dawn of antibiotic treatments. We report a case of chronic rhinocerebral mucormycosis involving Pott’s puffy tumor in a patient receiving immunosuppressive therapy after lung transplantation.
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KEYWORD
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Lung transplantation, Mucormycosis, Pott puffy tumor
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