Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 9-2002. An 80-year-old woman with sudden unilateral blindness

N Engl J Med. 2002 Mar 21;346(12):924-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020009.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Blindness / etiology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Carotid Artery, Internal / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Ethmoid Sinus / pathology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Hematologic Tests
  • Humans
  • Infections / diagnosis
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Mucorales / isolation & purification
  • Mucormycosis / complications
  • Mucormycosis / diagnosis
  • Mucormycosis / pathology*
  • Orbital Diseases / complications
  • Orbital Diseases / diagnosis
  • Orbital Diseases / pathology*
  • Pancytopenia / complications
  • Sphenoid Sinus / pathology
  • Spinal Puncture