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The storm of COVID?19?associated mucormycosis (CAM) has not yet settled, and it has proven itself a disfiguring and potentially life?threatening disease, complicating the course of COVID?19 infection. Mucormycosis is a rare but devastating fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi of the family Mucoraceae. We report a rare case of a 37?year?old diabetic male with bilateral rhino?orbital?cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) where it leads to bilateral central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) as manifestation of the disease. Bilateral CRAO secondary to ROCM is extremely rare. A strong suspicion of CAM in uncontrolled diabetics can result in early diagnosis and management.
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Echinococcosis or hydatid disease is caused by larvae of the tapeworm Echinococcus. It remains an important health problem, especially in regions with inadequate hygienic environments and poor veterinarian control. Liver is the most common organ of involvement in adults and lungs are commonly involved in younger people. The cysts are characteristically seen as solitary or multiple circumscribed or oval masses on imaging. The characteristic imaging appearance changes with rupture of cyst. Surgery is the recommended form of treatment. We present a case of ruptured pulmonary hydatid cyst with communicating rupture into the bronchus, which is not very common.
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Presurgical Orthopaedics is any treatment that alters the position of the segments of cleft maxilla in infancy prior to lip and palate reconstruction. There are different approaches, with different mechanics, seeking and achieving different end results. This article describes PNAM, a current approach to the traditional method of presurgical infant orthopaedics for patients with unilateral and bilateral clefts of lip and palate. The goal of PNAM is to align and approximate the alveolar cleft segments while at the same time achieving correction of nasal cartilage and soft tissue deformity.