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8944391

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-19
pubmed:abstractText
An 84-year-old woman developed a markedly proptotic right eye with external ophthalmoplegia and displacement of the globe into the superotemporal orbit. She had minimal pain and no history of the usual predisposing causes of orbital cellulitis. Vision was unaffected. Orbital computed tomography (CT) showed an extraconal inferomedial abscess with an adjacent intraconal component. A purulent abscess in the anterior inferomedial aspect of the orbit, which extended into the medial aspect of the intraconal space, was incised and drained. After surgery, the orbital inflammation and proptosis resolved, but an irreducible, nonpurulent lacrimal sac mucocele persisted. A dacryocystectomy was performed. Pathologic examination of the lacrimal sac biopsy specimen showed only chronic nongranulomatous inflammation. This case demonstrates that acute dacryocystitis may cause an intraconal orbital abscess with proptosis and complete external ophthalmoplegia, and represent a sight- and life-threatening condition.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0740-9303
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
294-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute dacryocystitis: an unusual cause of life-threatening orbital intraconal abscess with frozen globe.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Ophthalmology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103-2499, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't