Orbital Abscess Simulating Orbital Tumor.

Park, Yong Sang; Kwak, Young Sae; Choi, Ouk

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1979;20(4):573-576.
Published online April 1, 1979.

Orbital Abscess Simulating Orbital Tumor.

Yong Sang Park, Young Sae Kwak, Ouk Choi

Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University,College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

안와내 종양을 의삼하였던 안와내 농양

박용상 , 곽영세 , 최억 ( Yong Sang Park , Young Sae Kwak , Ouk Choi )

Abstract

The authors have experienced with a case of orbital abscess that was thought to be an orbital tumor. The patient was a 5 year old Korean boy who had exophthalmos in the right eye, but he did not have definite signs of inflammation. On the orbital venogram, there was a space occupying lesion in the lateral and posterior portion of the right eye. To obtain the precise diagnosis of the lesion, we made a surgical approach and drainage of the pus was performed. The pus culture yielded coagulase-positive Staphylococcus. The literature relating to orbital abscess was briefly reviewed.