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case_images: Intra oral picture showing exposed empty bony sockets
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case_images: F1
case_images: Denuded and naked bony sockets of teeth were seen [Figure 1].
case_images: CT scan showing extensive soft tissue destruction
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case_images: F2
case_images: A computed tomography scan of the maxillofacial region revealed the erosion, destruction, and moth-eaten appearance of the zygomatic arch, squamous temporal bone, maxilla involving the hard palate, all walls of maxillary sinus, floor, and posterolateral walls of the orbit, lesser and greater wings of the sphenoid, along with the floor of the middle cranial fossa, and walls of the sphenoid air sinuses, all of the right side [Figure 2].
case_images: Microscopic picture of bone showing groups of fungi proliferating (H and E, 40x)
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case_images: F3
case_images: H and E stained slides showed bony trabeculae surrounded by few hematoxiphilic thin-walled, aseptate, rarely branching hyphae of nonuniform diameter [Figure 3].
case_images: Microscopic picture of bone marrow space showing fungal hyphae (GMS stain, 20x)
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case_images: F4
case_images: Gomori's methenamine silver (GMS) stain for fungi showed fragments of dead bone and necrosis, with fungal hyphae of mucormycosis, positive for GMS [Figure 4].