Volume: 45 Issue: 3
Year: 2025, Page: 260-264, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51248/v45i3.155
Received: May 7, 2025 Accepted: Aug. 30, 2025 Published: Sept. 7, 2025
Mucormycosis is a rare but rapidly progressive fungal infection predominantly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Subcutaneous mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host is extremely uncommon and diagnostically challenging. This case presents previously healthy patient with a rapidly progressing cellulitis over the anterior region of right thigh, debridement revealed necrotic tissue suspicious of fungal infection, consecutive KOH microscopy confirmed Mucormycosis. Patient was managed successfully with serial surgical debridement and systemic antifungal therapy with Isavuconazole, and ultimately split-thickness skin grafting. This case emphasizes the importance of considering Mucormycosis even in immunocompetent individuals with aggressive soft tissue infections, and highlights the role of early surgical intervention with repeated debridement and antifungal therapy.
Keywords: Subcutaneous Mucormycosis, immunocompetent, debridement
Umesh Kulkarni, Sonali Katole, Seema Kulkarni, Anand Pathak, Anand Dank. Subcutaneous Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Patient. Biomedicine: 2025, 45(3): 260-264