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Figure 1. Mucormycosis of the hand and forearm occurred in a 28-year-old woman after a thermal burn of the right thumb caused by tap water (Panel A). The patient had mild diabetes mellitus that had been treated with 10 mg of glyburide per day for four years. Hyphal invasion (arrows) and propagation through the blood vessels (Panel B, x600) resulted in necrosis of the hand and forearm (Panel A) and was life threatening, necessitating amputation of her arm to above the elbow 26 days after the injury. The infection was caused by nonseptate hyphae of Rhizopus oryzae, 3 . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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