What species of fungus from the Mucor group is related to Mucormycosis.
Mucor, Rhizopus, Rhizomucor and Absidia
Mention at least three risk factors to the disease.
Diabetes mellitus, post transplantation and hematologic diseases.
What organs can be affected?
Paranasales sinuses, nasal cavity, skin, brain, lungs and even digestive system.
What kind of enhancement could be found in the brain lesions?
Ring enhancement, heterogeneously enhancement or not enhancement at all.
MRI images demonstrate multiple soft tissues lesions invading the right orbit, right maxillary sinus and left frontal sinus that appears low signal in T1, high signal in T2, shows restriction at DWI/ADC and heterogeneously enhancement at the gadolinium application, with no evidence of fat-suppression. There's severe compromise at the right orbit with proptosis and vivid enhancement at the optic nerve. Both masticator spaces shows intense enhancement at post gadolinium sequences.
At brain in both frontal lobes and right basal ganglia region there's two irregular and low signal lesions at T1, high signal at T2, with classic ring enhancement after gadolinium application, DWI/ADC restriction and associated with extensive edema, these findings consists with brain abscesses.
Additional findings: surgical changes by turbinectomy at right nasal cavity.