Gauri Mankekar
Editor

2014

Several years ago I encountered my first paediatric patient of mucormycosis. The child had juvenile diabetes with ketoacidosis. The surgical treatment paradigm then was “aggressive debridement”. It was indeed challenging to be “aggressive” with this small child, and I followed a “conservative approach” – restricting to repeated endoscopic debridement without orbital exenteration or palatal removal. Like most clinicians in such situations, there was the dilemma, then, whether “conservative” was the best approach.