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Blindness due to electrocoagulation following functional endoscopic sinus surgery
- Source :
- ResearcherID, Europe PubMed Central, The journal of laryngology and otology
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Abstract
- A case is presented with irreversible blindness in one eye and restriction of the infratemporal visual field in the other eye, due to electrocoagulation performed for delayed bleeding after functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Although blindness due to rhinosurgery is a well-known, but rare complication, a review of the recent literature did not reveal a similar incident. The use of electrocoagulation especially under conditions of poor visualization, that may be the case in post-operative bleeding following (endoscopic) sinus surgery, is strongly discouraged.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Eye disease
medicine.medical_treatment
Vision Disorders
Hemorrhage
Postoperative Hemorrhage
Blindness
Electrocoagulation
Postoperative Complications
Ethmoid Sinus
medicine
Paranasal Sinus Diseases
Humans
Sinusitis
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Endoscopy
General Medicine
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
Sinus surgery
medicine.disease
Surgery
Paranasal sinuses
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Visual Fields
business
Complication
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00222151
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ResearcherID, Europe PubMed Central, The journal of laryngology and otology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....94871aa1dfcdb7b26a7e18aa4669cb49