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KMID : 0882420050690060696
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Korean Journal of Medicine
2005 Volume.69 No. 6 p.696 ~ p.701
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Pulmonary mucormycosis presented as endobronchial Lesion and a Lobar consolidation in diabetes mellitus: A case report and review of other cases
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김지혜/Kim JH
최보금/박지현/박태선/백홍선/Choi BK/Park JH/Park TS/Baek HS
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Abstract
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Pulmonary mucormycosis is a relatively rare but highly virulent and rapidly progressive disease that occurs after inhalation of spores of the fungi that belong to class Zygomycetes. This infection occasionally occurs in seriously immunocompromised patients, but also in patients with uncontrolled diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Diagnosis is pathologic demonstration of typical hyphae within lung tissue, and requires aggressive treatments including surgical and medical approach for reducing the overall mortality. In Korea, pulmonary mucormycosis complicated with diabetes has been reported in only five cases. Recently, we experienced a case of pulmonary mucormycosis in 32-year-old poorly controlled diabetic man, who had nonspecific pulmonary symptoms, a lobar consolidation on chest radiograph, and endobronchial lesions on bronchoscopic finding. We reported here our case and reviewed characteristics of other five previous cases.
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