{"title":"Primary cutaneous mucormycosis in a premature neonate and its management by tumescent skin grafting","authors":"Vivek Kumar, Aditya Aggarwal, Rashmi Taneja, S.S. Saha, R.K. Khazanchi, Neelam Kler, Satish Saluja","doi":"10.1016/j.bjps.2005.01.005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Primary cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare and often fatal disease of infants and neonates. This is a case report of successful management of potentially fatal cutaneous fungal sepsis and use of tumescent technique to harvest a large skin graft with minimal blood loss in a premature neonate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":9252,"journal":{"name":"British journal of plastic surgery","volume":"58 6","pages":"Pages 852-854"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.bjps.2005.01.005","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British journal of plastic surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007122605000226","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Primary cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare and often fatal disease of infants and neonates. This is a case report of successful management of potentially fatal cutaneous fungal sepsis and use of tumescent technique to harvest a large skin graft with minimal blood loss in a premature neonate.