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Invasive Mediastinal Mucormycosis
Book chapter

Invasive Mediastinal Mucormycosis

Randy Ray Richardson
Atlas of Acquired Cardiovascular Disease Imaging in Children, pp.75-77
Springer International Publishing
10/14/2016

Abstract

Immunocompromised Mediastinum Mucormycosis Neutropenic
Mediastinal mucormycosis can be invasive and involve the heart, though such cardiac involvement is rare and typically occurs in profoundly neutropenic patients. The best diagnostic clue is obstruction of the superior vena cava (SVC), the pulmonary veins, or both from mediastinal infection.

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