RT Journal
A1 BORLAND DS
T1 MUcormycosis of the central nervous system
JF A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
JO A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1959
FD June 1
VO 97
IS 6
SP 852
OP 856
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010854013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010854013
AB For many years Mucor and Rhizopus, class of Phycomycetes, have been considered purely saprophytic, but recently a number of cases of human infection by these organisms have been encountered. Fourteen cases1-11 with involvement of the brain have been reported, and nine2,3,7,9-11 of these had concomitant disease of the eyes. In each of these 14 cases the fungus infection complicated some other disorder, and all of the patients died of their fungal disease. In one other case the eye alone was involved and treatment by enucleation was successful.12Paultauf1 reported the first case with central nervous system involvement in 1885, but no other cases appear until 1943, when Gregory, Golden, and Haymaker2 reported three new cases, all in middle-aged diabetics who were in diabetic coma when first seen. Subsequently LeCompte and Meissner,3 Wolf and Cowen,4 and Stratemeier5 reported single cases, each in moribund