Rhino-Edema

Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis.

A 12-year-old female patient started with sudden abdominal pain, polyuria, polydipsia, anorexia and a drop in conscience level. She was diagnosed with untreated type I diabetes mellitus (diabetic acidosis), with blood sugar of 508 mg/dl upon hospital admission. After one week in the hospital, she started having eyelid ptosis, facial pain, converging strabismus, left side epistaxis and a progres...

The Mobile Robot RHINO

RHINO was the University of Bonn’s entry in the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition. RHINO is a mobile robot designed for indoor navigation and manipulation tasks. The general scientific goal of the RHINO project is the development and the analysis of autonomous and complex learning systems. This paper briefly describes the major components of the RHINO control software as they were exhi...

Rhino-orbital zygomycosis.

A 63-year-old diabetic man presented with sinusitis with orbital and intracranial signs progressing over one week, due to zygomycosis. Despite control of the diabetes, surgical excision of infected tissue and antifungal therapy he died in the fifth week of illness. Pathological study showed extensive fungal infiltration of periorbital structures and mycotic thrombosis of many blood vessels with...

La mucormycose rhino-orbito-cérébrale

Pan African Medical Journal. 2012. 13;69 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/13/69/full/ © Ali Derkaoui et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, di...

A Case of Rhino-Meningorrhea