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Acute suppurative bacterial dacryoadenitis: a rare case report
Shivcharan L Chandravanshi1, Vinay Mishra
1Department of Ophthalmology, Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa - India.
Purpose:
To describe a case of lacrimal gland abscess.
Methods:
Case report.
Results:
An 11-year-old boy with respiratory tract infection presented acutely with an enlarging, painful mass in the superotemporal fornix in his left eye. Clinical evaluation and computerized tomography scan of the orbit revealed a lacrimal gland abscess. Conjunctival swab and sputum grew Klebsiella pneumoniae. The child was treated with intravenous amikacin.
Conclusions:
Lacrimal gland abscess is a rare clinical entity. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Klebsiella pneumoniae-associated dacryoadenitis complicated by lacrimal gland abscess formation in a pediatric patient.
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