Tuberc Respir Dis.  1988 Mar;35(1):59-63. 10.4046/trd.1988.35.1.59.

A Case of Pulmonary Mucormycosis without Obvious Predisposing Factors

• KMID: 2528628
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1988.35.1.59

Abstract

Pulmonary mucormycosis occurrs primarily in patients with severe underlying illness, especially leukemia, lymphoma, and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Pulmonary mucormycosis does uncommonly occur in the nonimmunocompromised host. Antemortem diagnosis has been made infrequently in pulmonary mucormycosis because of the acute course of the illness, lack of consideration of the diagnosis, and the need for tissue to establish the diagnosis. This 54-year-old female patient with pulmonary infiltrates was neither immunocompromised nor neutropenic. Our case is noteworthy because pneumonia occurred without obvious predisposing factors. As this case demonstrates, the absence of obvious predisposing factors does not rule out the possibility of pulmonary mucormycosis.