Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2003
Abstract
In the autopsy case of 55-year-old woman with relaps of acute myeloid leukemia was diagnosed generalised mucormycosis. During the neutropenia after chemotherapy she had dyspnea and chest pain.
Clinically there were found pleural and pericardial effusions and patological mass in liver parenchyma. She died of respiratory failure.
There was mycosis of the right lung found which had a feature of hemorhagical infarction. Mycosis continued to the adjacent pericardium and through the diaphragma to the liver.
From the pulmonary tissue Rhizomucor sp. was cultivated.