1. A child with rapidly progressive necrotizing group a streptococcal Tenon's capsule infection one day after strabismus surgery.
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Yau GL, Warder D, Farmer JP, Urton T, and Strube YN
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- Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination therapeutic use, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Conjunctivitis, Bacterial diagnosis, Conjunctivitis, Bacterial drug therapy, Eye Infections, Bacterial diagnosis, Eye Infections, Bacterial drug therapy, Fasciitis, Necrotizing diagnosis, Fasciitis, Necrotizing drug therapy, Humans, Infant, Male, Oculomotor Muscles surgery, Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures, Penicillin G therapeutic use, Streptococcal Infections diagnosis, Streptococcal Infections drug therapy, Tenon Capsule drug effects, Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination therapeutic use, beta-Lactamase Inhibitors therapeutic use, Conjunctivitis, Bacterial microbiology, Esotropia surgery, Eye Infections, Bacterial microbiology, Fasciitis, Necrotizing microbiology, Streptococcal Infections microbiology, Streptococcus pyogenes isolation & purification, Tenon Capsule microbiology
- Abstract
Periorbital infections after strabismus surgery are rare. We describe the first reported case of necrotizing group A streptococcal infection of the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule complicating uneventful strabismus surgery in a 23-month-old boy, successfully managed with conservative intraoperative debridement and with targeted local and systemic antibiotics., (Crown Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2015
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