Gastric mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host: A case report

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Case Report

Author Details : Deepti Gupta*, Nupur Trivedi, Abhimanyu Kapoor, Shefali Agarwal, Anjali Tewari

Volume : 10, Issue : 4, Year : 2023

Article Page : 410-412

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijpo.2023.093

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Abstract

Mucormycosis is rare but emerging fungal infection. In the past decade, it has emerged as an important lethal infection in diabetics and immunocompromised patients. Rhinosinusitis, pansinusitis, rhino-orbital and rhino cerebral forms constitute the classic manifestations of this fungus. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an uncommon disease with high mortality most often affecting patients with immunocompromised state. A very few cases of this disease have been described among patients with no risk factors and no known comorbidites. Our study attributes to one such case of invasive gastric mucormycosis diagnosed incidentally on histopathologic examination.
 

Keywords: Mucormycosis, Eumycetes, mycotic, Rhino- orbito- cerebral, Gastrointestinal, stomach, Immunocompetent.

How to cite : Gupta D, Trivedi N, Kapoor A, Agarwal S, Tewari A, Gastric mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host: A case report. Indian J Pathol Oncol 2023;10(4):410-412

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