Orbital abscess: Visual loss following extraction of a tooth - Case report

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Zachariades, Nicholas ^a   Vairaktaris, Eleftherios ^b   Mezitis, Michael ^a   Rallis, George ^a   Kokkinis, Constantine ^a   Moschos, Michael ^a,b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; ORBIT DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH FISTULA; TOOTH INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; BLINDNESS; DENTAL CARIES; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FOCAL INFECTION, DENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLAR; ORBITAL DISEASES; OROANTRAL FISTULA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 24944542358     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2005.02.062     Document Type: Article

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