A Case of Orbital Cellulitis Caused by Nasal Vestibular Furuncle |
Deok Woo Han, MD, Sung Goo Kang, MD, Jae Wook Eom, MD, and Sang Cheol Lee, MD |
Department of Otolaryngology, InJe Medical College, Busan Baik Hospital, Korea |
비절에 의한 안와봉와직염 1례 |
한덕우 · 강성구 · 엄재욱 · 이상철 |
인제대학교 의과대학 부산백병원 이비인후과학교실 |
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ABSTRACT |
Orbital cellulitis is a frequent disease which is caused by direct extension to the orbit from an infected eyelid, teeeth, paranasal sinus, and penetrating trauma or operation or systemic disease which spread to orbit via blood stream, but rare from the nasal vestibular furuncle. Recently, the authors have experienced a case of orbital cellulitis that was suspected to be caused by nasal vestibular furuncle. The patient,
-year-old baby, visited to our emergency room on January 7, 1986 with the chief complaints of high fever and reddish swelling of Rt. upper eyelid followed by nasal vestibular furuncle and present this case with review of literature relating to orbital cellulitis.
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