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Table 1 Reporting checklist for mucormycosis

From: A pictorial review of imaging manifestations of rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis–emerging threat in COVID pandemic

1. Sino-nasal system

Mucosal thickening with variable enhancement with sinus wall

 

Black turbinate sign

 

Osteomyelitis or frank destruction

 

Hyperdense contents in sinus

 

Peri antral fat obliteration

2. Face

Signs of extensive cellulitis or collections in infratemporal fosse/pterygopalatine fosse, masticator space

3. Orbit

Extraconal – subperiosteal abscess, soft tissue fat stranding

 

Conal- myositis, muscle infarctions

 

Intraconal- collections, cellulitis, psedotumor

 

Optic nerve- perineuritis, neuritis, infarction

 

Orbital apex and superior orbital fissure

 

Guitar pick sign

 

Endophthalmitis

4. Cavernous sinus

Filling defect in the cavernous sinus

 

Nerve enhancement

 

ICA thrombosis

5. Intracranial

Extraaxial: meninigits, extradural/subdural epyema

 

Cerebral: Abscess, direct invasion, septic embolic infarcts, large territorial ischemic infarcts

 

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis

 

Skull base osteomyelitis