Eyelid swelling and erythema as the only signs of subperiosteal abscess.
Open Access
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 73 (7) , 576-578
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.73.7.576
Abstract
On clinical grounds it is usually easy to distinguish between preseptal cellulitis, a cutaneous infection not threatening to vision, and orbital cellulitis, a potentially vision threatening infection of the orbital tissues generally arising from paranasal sinusitis. We recently cared for two patients with a clinical diagnosis of preseptal cellulitis who had CT scan evidence of subperiosteal abscess. Antibiotic therapy alone resulted in clinical resolution in each case.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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