Abstract
A retrospective study has been carried out in a hospital over the past 5 years on 13 patients of mucormycosis. The study included evaluating the etiology, pathology, clinical features, management, and complications of mucormycosis. The results and conclusions have been studied and summarised in our paper.
Key words: Mucormycosis, pathology, clinical features, treatment
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