Post-operative Gangrene of Eyelid.

PROGRESSIVE post-operative gangrene is a rare but clinically typical phenomenon of secondary infection of a surgical wound. It is usually abdominal or thoracic (Sutton, 1956), and has occurred most often soon after the drainage of an appendix abscess or empyema (Illingworth and Dick, 1945). Post-operative gangrene has rarely been reported to affect the eyelids and the description of the following case is therefore of ophthalmological interest.