Mucormycosis is a novel angioinvasive infection caused by the Mucorales order of the Zygomycete class's ubiquitous filamentous fungus. Following candidiasis and aspergillosis, mucormycosis has emerged as the third most common invasive mycosis in patients receiving haematological and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Mucorales members are extremely rare in nasal mucus, indicating that spores in airway mucus are cleared by mucociliary transport or that there is very little airborne contamination. Disseminated mucormycosis is an uncommon condition that most commonly affects neutropenic individuals with hematologic malignancies, transplant recipients and those on deferoxamine treatment. We present the case of a 64-year-old immunocompetent guy with severe pneumonia and widespread jaundice who died within 24 hours. The autopsy revealed two important findings: severe splenic perforations and several bleeding foci on the pancreas. A histopathological examination of tissue sections indicated the presence of characteristic zygomycetes hyphae in the left lung, pancreas, spleen and brain. The involvement of the pancreas in this patient was one of the few mucormycosis characteristics mentioned in the literature. Our case demonstrates uncommon clinical manifestations of disseminated mucormycosis and emphasises the need of considering disseminated mucormycosis even in immunocompetent individuals.
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