<p>"Mucormycosis" term is used for a group of fungal diseases caused by the order mucorales. It typically presents as sino-nasal-orbital involvement and rarely involves skin. Management of such cases is quite challenging. Reported here is a case of a young girl, who presented with right eye swelling and reduced vision and got detected with type 1 diabetes mellitus on admission with rare occurrence of cutaneous lesions while on treatment. Direct nasal endoscopy with biopsy was undertaken. KOH

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... histopathology report was suggestive of mucormycosis, for which the patient was administered intravenous amphotericin B and surgical debridement was carried out. With the accurate application of a multidisciplinary approach with timely investigations, imaging studies, antifungals and debridement, successful outcome in mucormycosis is well within our reach.</p>