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Mucormycoses: serious complication of high-dose corticosteroid therapy for traumatic optic neuropathy
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 04/03/08

Dojcinovic I et al. - Traumatic optic neuropathy is a rare complication of maxillofacial trauma. Management is controversial, and there are no treatment guidelines in the literature. The main methods of treatment of this condition employed today are high-dose corticosteroids and surgical optic nerve decompression, either alone or in combination. In this case, the patient was in good health, but received high-dose corticosteroids for 2 weeks, which temporarily diminished immune response and permitted the development of mucormycosis.

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