Mucormicosis rinocerebral: comunicación de 4 casos / Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: report of 4 cases

We report four diabetic patients (one male) aged 64, 63, 61 and 77 years old with rhinocerebral mucormycosis. Three had an acute and one a chronic form of the disease. The chronic form was diagnosed with a biopsy of the nasal cavity. Three patients received amphotericin but all died. The diagnosis of the disease must be suspected in diabetics or patients with some type of immune depression