Detrimental effect of mandibular mucormycosis burlesquing as osteosarcoma

Detrimental effect of mandibular mucormycosis burlesquing as osteosarcoma

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Mucormycosis is an acute, opportunistic infection caused by a saprophytic fungi typically inhabiting the soil or decaying organic matter.It is an invasive and potentially fatal infection caused by fungi of the order Mucorales, which commonly affects structures Exercise Equipment - Exercise Weights in the head and neck including air sinuses, orbits, and the brain.We describe our clinical experience of a case of mandibular mucormycosis, developing in a 45-year-old male who had a family history of diabetes.He presented with complaints of pain and foul-smelling discharge from a nonhealing, ulcerative wound at the mandibular alveolus, encompassing the area Flywheel Pulley around the left canine and 1st premolar.The x-ray revealed osteolytic bony lesion with massive destruction of the mandibular ramus.

A clinical impression of osteosarcoma was deduced.Surgical curettage was performed; however, the histopathological examination and subsequent treatment with periodic acid-Schiff stain aided in achieving a conclusive diagnosis of mandibular mucormycosis.