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Role of systemic corticosteroids in orbital cellulitis: a meta-analysis and literature review

Abstract Introduction: The standard management of orbital cellulitis is to administer a combination of intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotics along with treatment of associated sinusitis. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the addition of corticosteroids could lead to earlier ...

Incidence and risk factors for major infections in hospitalized children with nephrotic syndrome

J. bras. nefrol; 41 (4), 2019
ABSTRACT Introduction: Children with nephrotic syndrome are at increased risk of infections because of disease status itself and use of various immunosuppressive agents. In majority, infections trigger relapses requiring hospitalization with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to...

Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities

An. bras. dermatol; 92 (5), 2017
Abstract: Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing ...

Inflamación aguda de la órbita. Celulitis orbitaria
Acute orbital inflammation. Orbital cellulitis

Rev. mex. oftalmol; 73 (3), 1999
Se hace la revisión de 72 casos de celulitis orbitaria, estudiados en el Hospital "Luis Sánchez Bulnes" de la Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México, en un período de 14 años, de 1982 a 1996, analizando la prevalancia, etipatogenia, curso del padecimiento, respuesta al tratamiento y complicaci...

Amaurosis unilateral irreversible secundaria a esfenoetmoiditis
Unilateral irreversible visual loos due to sphenoethmoiditis

Rev. mex. oftalmol; 73 (1), 1999
La celulitis orbitaria secundaria a sinusitits paranasal se caracteriza por proptosis, alteraciones en la movilidad ocular, edema palpebral, quemosisi y/o hiperemia conjuntival previos a disminución o pérdida de la función visual. En caso de sinusitis posterior o esfenoetmoidal, la pérdida temprana y...