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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 122-124 |
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Spontaneous gastric ulcer perforation and acute spleen infarction caused by invasive gastric and splenic mucormycosis
Mushira Abdulaziz Enani1, Bandar N Alharthi2, Nancy Dewanjee2, Nadeem A Bhat2, Mosa Fagih3
1 Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2 Department of Surgical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3 Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Mushira Abdulaziz Enani
Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.138509
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Mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection mostly affecting immunocompromised hosts. The main categories of human disease with the Mucorales are sinusitis/rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous/subcutaneous, gastrointestinal and disseminated disease. Other disease states occur with a much lower frequency and include cystitis, vaginitis; external otitis and allergic disease. We report a diabetic patient with comorbidities, who developed gastric perforation clinically indistinguishable from perforated peptic ulcer due to invasive gastric mucormycosis complicated by spleen infarction. |
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