A Case of Pulmonary Mucormycosis without Obvious Predisposing Factors

Lew, Woo Jin; Choi, Jin; Shim, Jong Geol; Choi, Young Chun; Kim, Tae Wha; Park, Sung Soo; Lee, Jung Hee; Lee, Jung Dal

doi:1988.35.1.59

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 35(1); 1988 > Article

Case report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1988;35(1):59-63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1988.35.1.59 Published online March 1, 1988.

A Case of Pulmonary Mucormycosis without Obvious Predisposing Factors

Woo Jin Lew¹, Jin Choi¹, Jong Geol Shim¹, Young Chun Choi¹, Tae Wha Kim¹, Sung Soo Park¹, Jung Hee Lee¹, Jung Dal Lee²

¹Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

뚜렷한 선행질환이 없는 폐모균증(Mucormycosis) 1예

류우진¹, 최진¹, 심종걸¹, 최영춘¹, 김태화¹, 박성수¹, 이정희¹, 이중달²

Abstract

Pulmonary mucormycosis occurrs primarily in patients with severe underlying illness, especially leukemia, lymphoma, and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Pulmonary mucormycosis does uncommonly occur in the nonimmunocompromised host. Antemortem diagnosis has been made infrequently in pulmonary mucormycosis because of the acute course of the illness, lack of consideration of the diagnosis, and the need for tissue to establish the diagnosis. This 54-year-old female patient with pulmonary infiltrates was neither immunocompromised nor neutropenic. Our case is noteworthy because pneumonia occurred without obvious predisposing factors. As this case demonstrates, the absence of obvious predisposing factors does not rule out the possibility of pulmonary mucormycosis.