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Cerebritis, optic ischemia, and cavernous sinus thrombosis arising from sinonasal mucormycosis.

Eliseo PicchiNoemi PucciAlessia AmatrudaFrancesca FuPaola LeomanniValentina FerrazzoliFrancesca Di GiulianoFrancesco Garaci
Published in: Radiology case reports (2024)
Brain and ocular infections can be the worst and fatal consequences of sinonasal infections in immunomodulated or immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a 35-year-old female who received an allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia, suffering from maxillo-spheno-ethmoidal rhinosinusitis which was complicated by cavernous sinus thrombosis, orbital cellulitis, optic ischemia and cerebritis.
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