A Case of Pulmonary Mucormycosis with a Uncontrolled Diabetic |
Deog Yoon Kim1, Suk Hoon Lee1, Jee Hong Yoo1, Hong Mo Kang1, Won Dong Kim1, Se Young Yoo2, Jin Tae Soe3, Moon Ho Yang3 |
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kyunghee University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyunghee University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 3Department of Pathology, Kyunghee University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea |
당뇨병에 합병된 폐모균증 1예 |
김덕윤1, 이석훈1, 유지홍1, 강홍모1, 김원동1, 유세영2, 서진태3, 양문호3 |
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Abstract |
Pulmonary mucormycosis (Phycomycetes) is an uncommon fungal infection complicating diabetes mellitus, leukemia, lymphoma, and other debilitating diseases Although the infection usually progresses rapidly, chronic pulmonary lesions have been reported, and clinical manifestation may be indolent, particularly on DM and renal failure.
This 52-years-old female patient with pulmonary mucormycosis was indolent and had chronic pulmonary lesion, and was successfully treated with resectional surgery and diabetic control. |
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