Clinical and surgical treatment of secondary orbital abscess in ethmoidal sinusitis

Abstract

The authors report the case of na eighteen years old patient with a clinical picture of orbital abscess caused by ethmoid sinusitis. The decision for surgical intervention results from correlation between clinical findings and from the image diagnosis. RESUMORelato de um caso de uma paciente de 18 anos com um quadro clinico de abscesso orbital causado por sinusite etmoidal. A decisão pela intervenção cirúrgica resultou da correlação entre achados clínicos e do diagnóstico dos exames de imagem.

Tomographic findings of acute infections of the orbit: literature review

“…Descritores: Tomografia computadorizada por raios-X; Infecção aguda; Órbita/patologia INTRODUCTION O rbital diseases have been the subject of several radiological research studies conducted in Brazil (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) . Even though acute orbital conditions are not infrequent medical emergencies, they are little known by most professionals (8) .…”