Delayed presentation of orbito-cerebral abscess caused by pencil-tip injury

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 316-317

  Seider, Nir ^a   Gilboa, Michael ^a   Lautman, Elvira ^a   Miller, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GRAPHITE;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE SWELLING; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; OPERATING ROOM; OPTIC DISK; ORBITOCEREBRAL ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PUPIL REFLEX; PUS; STAB WOUND; SWELLING; UPPER EYELID; VOMITING; BRAIN INJURY; DRUG COMBINATION; EYE INJURY; EYELID; FRONTAL LOBE; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORBIT; ORBIT DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEFTRIAXONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; EYELIDS; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; ORBIT; ORBITAL DISEASES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33747084516     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01/iop.0000226920.54294.0c     Document Type: Article

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