Case report: Nasopharyngeal mucormycosis, atypical presentation in a seventy-year-old diabetic lady

•Mucormycotic is a rare, yet a fetal type of infection that need emergent intervention.•Diabetes mellituis one of the commonest predisposing factor in mucormycosis infection.•Majority of the patient will present with rhino-orbito-cerebral symptoms.•Amphotericin b with surgical debridement is the treatment of choice. With correction of predisposing factors