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01.06.2021 | COVID-19 | Editorial
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COVID-19 and Mucormycosis of the Craniofacial skeleton: Causal, Contributory or Coincidental?
verfasst von:
Dinesh Kumar Verma, Rishi Kumar Bali
Erschienen in:
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2021
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Excerpt
The outbreak of Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed the landscape of medicine in many ways. Being a new disease entity with a high infectivity rate and associated fatality, it is also associated with certain morbidities induced by novel therapeutic protocols resulting in additional challenges. One such issue, osteomyelitis of the craniofacial skeleton, has been a point of constant discussions in online, offline academic groups and print media. There were many anecdotal cases of fungal osteomyelitis of craniofacial skeleton in patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 leading to a common inference that incidence of the osteomyelitis has increased drastically due to COVID-19. It has been almost a year since these reports started coming in, and a search for evidence would help in clearing the air. …