Abstract

FONSECA ESCOBAR, Diego; MANCILLA URIBE, Juan; PARADA FERNANDEZ, Fernando  and  MONTERO RIFFO, Sandra. Mucormycosis of the head and neck: Update on diagnosis and medical-surgical management. A narrative review. Rev. Asoc. Odontol. Argent. [online]. 2023, vol.111, n.3, pp.5-5.  Epub Nov 30, 2023. ISSN 2683-7226.  http://dx.doi.org/10.52979/raoa.1111251.1211.

Mucormycosis is a low-prevalence, rapidly progressive and high-mortality pathology that encompasses a wide spectrum of opportunistic infections caused by fungi of the Mucoraceae, Lichtheimiaceae, Thamnidiaceae, Cunninghamellaceae, Syncephalastraceae, and Radiomycetaeae. It is currently the third cause of invasive fungal infection, after candidiasis and aspergillosis, with its most frequent clinical presentation being rhinocerebral of paranasal origin, whose characteristic symptom is acute bacterial rhinosinusitis with projection to the antral teeth, with rapid progression and fatality.

In this review, manually extracted results from articles indexed in the MEDLINE and EBSCO databases were used following the search for the terms mucormycosis, oral surgery and patient care management with the aim of providing an updated view of the literature regarding the diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis of the head and neck.

Keywords : Mucormycosis; oral surgery; patient care management.

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