Continuous B scan ultrasound guided post-traumatic sub-periosteal orbital hematoma drainage: An advantage over routine needle drainage procedure
Journal Title: World Journal of Emergency Medicine - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 4
Abstract
Traumatic orbital haemorrhage is an unfortunate complication with potential vision-threatening consequences.[1-3] The collection of blood can occur anywhere along the potential free orbital spaces,[4] but the subperiosteal collection of the blood is an important clinical variant where careful and timely intervention can give commendable rewards to the surgeon as well as to the patient.[1,2] Subperiosteal hematoma could be traumatic or non-traumatic, in turns, the non-traumatic cases may be due to bleeding tendency as in cases of leukaemia, blood dyscrasia and haemophilia or could be due to vascular malformation, venous congestion, infection, inflammation and neoplastic and non- neoplastic causes.[4] Here in this report, we elaborate the advantage of continuous ultrasound-guided needle drainage of the post-traumatic subperiosteal hematoma to enhance the clinical accuracy and to avoid the untoward complications.
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