The surgical management of rhinocerebral mucormycosis

Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a rapidly progressing disease with a high mortality rate, which requires immediate surgical and medical intervention. It seems from the data presented that the presence of mucormycosis is an ominous sign in immunocompromised patients. The extent of the disease is of less prognostic value, since the only patients in our series who survived had the most extensive disease, yet his primary haemato-oncological disease was under control. Controlling the underlying disease with early diagnosis and aggressive surgical intervention appears to be the most important factor for survival.