[Uncommon intra-orbital foreign body. Apropos of a case]

B Briat; P Vo Tan; H Robin; T Hoang-Xuan

[Uncommon intra-orbital foreign body. Apropos of a case]

J Fr Ophtalmol. 1997;20(7):551-3.

[Article in French]

Authors

B Briat¹, P Vo Tan, H Robin, T Hoang-Xuan

Affiliation

¹ Service d'Ophtalmologie, CHU Bichat-Claude-Bernard, Paris.

PMID: 9499981

Abstract

We report an unusual case of an acute iatrogenic unilateral exophthalmos in a woman affected by acinetobacter baumanii septicemia. The possible hypothesis of the exophthalmos is discussed.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Aged
Drainage / adverse effects
Female
Foreign Bodies / complications
Foreign Bodies / diagnosis*
Humans
Iatrogenic Disease
Maxillary Sinusitis / surgery
Orbit*