Traumatic Lenticular Abscess: Clinical Description and Outcome  

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Rajaraman, Revathi ; Lalitha, Prajna ; Raghavan, Anita ; Palanisamy, Manikandan ; Prajna, Namperumalsamy Venkatesh

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: American Journal of Ophthalmology (keterangan: ada di ClinicalKey) vol. 144 no. 01 (Jul. 2007), page 144.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: A12.K.2007.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Purpose To analyze cases with posttraumatic lenticular abscess and study the etiology, clinical presentation, management, and outcome. Design Retrospective case series. Methods Seventeen eyes of 17 patients with traumatic lenticular abscesses were managed with extracapsular cataract extraction after aspirating the abscess. Results The mean age of the patients was 40.3 years, and males constituted 82%. The mean time to presentation after injury was 14.35 days (range, one to 60 days), and the patients had a mean follow-up of 125.94 days (range, 21 to 300 days). Culture of the lenticular abscess revealed bacterial growth in eight cases (47%) and fungi in four cases (23.5%). In five (29.4%) cases, culture was negative. Staphylococcus epidermidis grew in seven cases (41%). Thirteen eyes (77%) had best-corrected visual acuity better than 20/120. Conclusions Surgical removal of the abscess, with systemic and local antimicrobial treatment is effective in cases of posttraumatic intralenticular abscess.

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