Abstract
Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic infection caused by invasive filamentous fungi of the class Zygomycetes belonging to the order Mucorales. Mucormycosis most frequently occurs in diabetic individuals, immunosuppressed patients on chronic steroids, patients with hematologic malignancies, or solid organ or bone marrow transplant recipients. There have been only 2 case reports of pulmonary mucormycosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who have been treated with oral steroids. We report a patient with COPD who presented with pulmonary masses. Diagnosis of the mucormycosis was made by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC).
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