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Neonatal orbital abscess after sinus surgery: case report and brief review
Elizabeth Yang1, Mark Fisher, Juan Servat
1Department of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital , New Haven, Connecticut , USA .
Orbit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|July 24, 2013
Abstract:
Orbital abscess formation in neonates is rare, with only 12 cases reported in the literature. We present a case of orbital cellulitis with orbital abscesses following repair of congenital choanal atresia in a 2-week-old neonate. This is the first reported case of an orbital abscess following a sinus procedure in a neonate.
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