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Autopsy on this 68 year-old patient showing hemorrhagic ulceration in the stomach.
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F1
He died 2 weeks later due to multiorgan failure at which time an autopsy revealed disseminated systemic mucormycosis with necrotizing hemorrhagic infarctions in the stomach (Fig.1, 2), lungs, kidneys, thyroid, and brain.
Angioinvasive fungal organisms in the vascular channel and the vessel walls of the postmortem stomach, 400 x H&E.
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F2
He died 2 weeks later due to multiorgan failure at which time an autopsy revealed disseminated systemic mucormycosis with necrotizing hemorrhagic infarctions in the stomach (Fig.1, 2), lungs, kidneys, thyroid, and brain.