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Orbital cellulitis following dental extraction.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORBITAL CELLULITIS FOLLOWING EXTRACTION OF TEETH has been recognized clinically in a number of studies. 1-7 Because of the large number of dental extractions performed in the United States each year (estimated at 50 million in the American Dental Association Bureau of Economic and Behavioral Research 1979 Survey of Services Rendered), it is important to recognize the process ...
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Sinus infections can be complicated by ocular infections and, in late phases, by brain parenchyma infection. The article debates the case of a 12-year-old patient suffering from paucisymptomatic maxillo-spheno-ethmoidal rhinosinusitis, which was later complicated by orbital cellulitis, ending with the development of a brain abscess. The treatment is complex, initially targeting the source of th...
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Forty-nine cases of orbital cellulitis were reviewed. The average age of patients at presentation was 31 years. The onset of symptoms varied from seven days or less in 28 patients, one to four weeks in 17 patients, and more than four weeks in four patients. The leucocyte count, available in 33 patients, was greater than 10 X 10(9)/l in only nine. Abnormal sinuses were noted radiographically in ...
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PURPOSE Orbital cellulitis (OC) as a complication of implanted aqueous drainage devices (ADD) for glaucoma is an uncommon phenomenon. The authors report two cases of infectious OC in patients with a history of congenital glaucoma and placement of ADD. METHODS Clinical records of two patients with ADD who subsequently developed OC were reviewed for presenting symptoms, signs, medical and surgi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1911
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/0035915711004005128