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04-16-2020, 03:05 PM
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Fungal Infection from Dental Procedure.
In the first picture, a 50-year-old diabetic woman had a routine dental extraction. Develops facial swelling. Gets seen by doc, passes out. Over just THREE DAYS the infection eats that hole into her face. She loses an eye and a massive chunk of her face to an opportunistic fungal infection, has the wound covered surgically with a flap of muscle tissue. Sixteen months after hospital discharge, the patient was alive, fully oriented and could speak intelligibly. Locally, the pedicled flap had partially deteriorated. The right face presented a cavity from the oropharynx and the posterior sphenoid wall to the right orbit. The cavity was covered by mucosal epithelium. No evidence of active disease was present. Reconstruction options were reconsidered at this stage, but the patient refused them. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...w_fig5_7145382 |