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KMID : 0383820130740060269
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
2013 Volume.74 No. 6 p.269 ~ p.273
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A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
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Lee Jung-Su
Kim Ho-Cheol
Park Sang-Woo
So Hoon-Sub
Woo Chang-Yun
Choi Jong-Han
Kim Sang-Hyung
Oh Yeon-Mok
Kim Se-Jin
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Abstract
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Mucormycosis is a rare fungal disease that holds a fatal opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, and immunocompromised host. Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis is extremely rare. Optimal therapy is a combined medical-surgical approach and a management of the patient’s underlying disease. Herein, we report a case-study of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis which was being presented as multiple lung nodules in a patient with no underlying risk factors. Considering that the patient had poor pulmonary functions, we treated him with only antifungal agent rather than a combined medical-surgical approach. After treatment with antifungal agent for six months, the nodules of pulmonary mucormycosis were improved with the prominent reductions of size on the computed tomography.
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KEYWORD
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Mucormycosis, Lung, Immunocompetence, Posaconazole
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