Case 86. Mucormycosis of lung (60 y-o F)

       
  Autopsied lung with multifocal irregular hemorrhagic infarcts, seen after chemotherapy for acute leukemia  
       

 

  Zygomycetes are microscopically featured by angioinvasiveness, weak reactivity with Grocott's silver, lack of septum formation and the width of the lamifying angle (Grocott).