Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection initiated in the paranasal sinuses that frequently progresses to orbital and brain involvement. Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis is usually associated with a poor prognosis and is almost exclusively seen in immunocompromised patients. The autors present a case of an immunocompetent female patient, 41 years old, with sinusal and orbital signs and symptons. The diagnosis of Mucormycosis was based on radiological study, surgical findings and culture. Now, that patient is being looked after in the ambulatory of the Hospital de Base do DF.
mucormycosis; rhinocerebral phicomycosis and sinusal fungal infections
