Ethmoid sinusitis is the most common predisposing factor for the development of orbital cellulitis. Previous studies have shown that the most commonly involved bacteria include "typical" respiratory ...

Orbital cellulitis may have sight- and life-threatening consequences. 1 We report an atypical manifestation of this condition. A 56–year-old woman with Down syndrome was referred for assessment of OD ...

Imaging helped lead to the diagnosis and treatment of a 2-year-old girl who developed the life-threatening condition orbital cellulitis due to a dental abscess. The details were published on April 9 ...

We report a case of a 34-year-old diabetic man who developed orbital cellulitis 7 days following facial trauma. Peptostretococcus was identified as the causative organism. We are unaware of any ...

A 15-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a swollen left upper eyelid. The patient admitted to picking at a pimple the week prior, and the lid became increasingly swollen over ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ten days before presentation to our institution, the patient developed acute-onset left eye ptosis, discomfort, ...

An eight-year-old boy with marked periorbital erythema and oedema with proptosis in his right eye is brought in by his anxious mother. A week earlier he briefly complained of nasal pain and three days ...

Cellulitis may have different symptoms depending on the type of bacteria involved and where on your body it affects. These factors may influence which antibiotics a doctor prescribes to treat ...

Brenner Children's Hospital (BCH) in Winston-Salem, NC, part of the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, is a regional referral center for western North Carolina, southern Virginia, eastern ...