Template:Periorbital vs orbital cellulitis
Revisión del 20:04 5 oct 2019 de ClaireLewis (discusión | contribs.)
- Orbital cellulitis may mimic periorbital cellulitis early in its course
- Orbital cellulitis
- Ocular emergency
- Most often due to ethmoid sinusitis
- May also be due to orbital trauma, endophthalmitis, infection from teeth / middle ear
- Not caused by extension of periorbital cellulitis
- Periorbital cellulitis
- Usually benign
- Most often due to contiguous infection of soft tissues of face and eyelids