Acute Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis-Related Orbital Infection: A Single Medical Center Experience

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This was a 73-year-old male patient. He died 22 days after disease onset. The culture reported Rhizopus. (a) The patient presented as left facial swelling and tenderness, left eye proptosis, painful extraocular movement, eyelid swelling and erythema, conjunctival injection and chemosis, and cornea edema. (b) Computed tomography revealed orbital intraconal infiltration, extraocular muscles swelling, and sinusitis over maxillary and ethmoid sinuses. (c) Magnetic resonance imaging was performed 2 days after the CT, which revealed ipsilateral brain edema with midline shift.

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