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Volume 347:855-856 September 12, 2002 Number 11
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Case 9-2002: Orbital Mucormycosis

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by Bienfang, D. C.
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To the Editor: In Case 9-2002 (March 21 issue),1 the patient's pancytopenia and subsequent splenectomy may have been considered risk factors for the development of mucormycosis, but the nasal packing also may have played a part in promoting the extension of the infection from the nasal passages to the preseptal spaces and beyond. How long was the packing in place, and was it anterior or posterior?


Tristram C. Dammin, M.D.
Lahey Clinic
Burlington, MA 01805
drtcd@massmed.org

  1. Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (Case 9-2002). N Engl J Med 2002;346:924-929. [Free Full Text]
 
To the Editor: Although Dr. Bienfang arrived at the correct diagnosis, he did not relate this unusual infection to the patient's splenectomy only 16 . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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