Mucormycosis: an unusual masquerader of an endobronchial tumour

• Main Authors: Venugopal Jaganathan, Vijaya Prakash Madesh, Santhakumar Subramanian, Rajeshwari K. Muthusamy, Sangita S. Mehta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019-12-01
• Series: Respirology Case Reports
• Subjects: Endobronchial mucormycosis; endobronchial tumour; poorly controlled diabetes
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.488
• ISSN: 2051-3380

Pulmonary mucormycosis is a life‐threatening invasive fungal infection usually seen in the background of immunosuppression, haematological malignancies, or uncontrolled diabetes. Immunocompetent hosts can also be affected. Isolated endobronchial mucormycosis is rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Here, we present a case of an endobronchial mass masquerading as a tumour that was later diagnosed as invasive mucormycosis by histopathological examination.