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Eyelid lump in child associated with dog scratch
- Source :
- Postgraduate medical journal. 95(1130)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- A 14-year-old girl presented with a left upper eyelid diffuse swelling and an ipsilateral pseudoptosis (figure 1A). She had been referred by a general practitioner as an urgent case of orbital cellulitis. She had already received 2 days of treatment with oral clindamycin without improvement in symptoms. The patient’s general medical history was unremarkable. Her family owned two dogs and she had been bitten by them several times during playing. Nasal endoscopy was performed. No purulent secretions were found in the middle meatus. MRI showed a …
- Subjects :
- Blepharoplasty
medicine.medical_specialty
Meatus
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Biopsy
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Azithromycin
Disease Vectors
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Dogs
Eye Injuries
medicine
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Animals
Humans
Medical history
030212 general & internal medicine
Girl
media_common
Disease Reservoirs
Nasal endoscopy
Bartonella henselae
business.industry
Cat-Scratch Disease
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
Anti-Bacterial Agents
medicine.anatomical_structure
Treatment Outcome
Dog scratch
Left upper eyelid
Female
Eyelid
Orbital cellulitis
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14690756
- Volume :
- 95
- Issue :
- 1130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Postgraduate medical journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fd6d90cdfaee1bcd778a181ac108cc9b