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Image of cutaneous mucormycosis in patient 1 status postfasciotomy.
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On this admission, the patient was taken to the operating room (OR) for fasciotomy (Figure 1).
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Patient 2 CT abdomen exhibiting bowel perforation secondary to mucormycosis.
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POD18 and an indium scan exhibiting increased uptake in the abdomen; however, leukocytosis resolved and the patient was discharged to inpatient rehabilitation. Patient was then readmitted on POD30 for increased abdominal pain, and a computed tomography (CT) scan exhibited free air in her abdomen suspicious for gastric perforation (Figure 2).
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Patient 3 MRI image mucromycosis growth in sinuses.
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MRI findings showed persistent marked pansinusitis with focal left nasal bridge ulceration and extension of inflammation into the postseptal inferomedial extraconal fat of the left orbit with no acute intracranial abnormality identified (Figure 3).
Patient 3 postsurgical intervention.
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In POD13, the patient underwent extensive surgical intervention including a partial rhinectomy, bilateral endoscopic sinus surgery with left medial maxillectomy, resection of intranasal contents, septectomy, inferior and middle turbinate resection, bilateral ethmoidectomy, right maxillary antrostomy, and resection of left lamina papyracea (Figure 4).