Abstract

FLORES CHAVEZ, Ana; RODRIGUEZ TEMOCHE, Lourdes; ALARCON ROJAS, Karen  and  PEREYRA LOPEZ, Sonia. Gastric mucormycosis in an immunocompetent child. Rev. gastroenterol. Perú [online]. 2019, vol.39, n.2, pp.193-196. ISSN 1022-5129.

Mucormycosis is a rare, usually fatal, opportunistic infection that mostly affects people with immune deficiency or associated pathologies. There are few reports of this disease in patients without the traditional risk factors, still unknown what could be the real predisposing causes involved. The forms of presentation are rhinocerebral, cutaneous, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and disseminated. This is why, due to the difficult diagnosis, high mortality and uncommon presentation, we report the case of a 4-year-old child without immunodeficiency or background pathologies who developed an esophagogastric mucormycosis.

Keywords : Mucormycosis; Esophagogastric; Pediatrics.

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