[Postcovid sino-orbital mucormycosis: a case report].

We describe a case of postcovid sino-orbital mucormycosis in a 74-year-old patient with diabetes mellitus. Orbital symptoms appeared after discharge from the covid hospital, in the third week of the disease and were represrnted by ptosis, proptosis, ophthalmoplegia, blindness and pain in the right eye, numbness of the right half of the face, edema of the periorbital region and cheek. The diagnosis of mucormycosis was confirmed by fluorescence microscopy of the discharge from the middle nasal meatus.