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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 540-542 |
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Sino-orbital gas gangrene – A guest unknown
Sumeet Lahane, Tejal Gujar, Aman Vaishya, Dhananjay Prajapati, Saurabh Dembla, Ragini Parekh, Tatyarao Lahane
Department of Ophthalmology, Grant Government Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Sumeet Lahane
JJ Hospital, Byculla, Mumbai 400 008, Maharashtra
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2514_21
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Orbital cellulitis is a dreaded entity that can lead to an array of complications from visual loss to cavernous sinus involvement. Paranasal sinus (PNS) infection and trauma are the most common etiology. We report a case series of three patients who were victims of landslide and developed orbital cellulitis. Facial edema, proptosis, central retinal artery occlusion and hyperdense foci in the orbit, and PNS with proven growth of Clostridium perfringes were the common features in all these patients. Natural calamity leading to this fulminant infection led to mortality of all three patients. This is the first case series of sino-orbital gas gangrene in victims of heavy rainfall causing landslide.
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