Evacuation of orbital hematoma by continuous suction.
An orbital hematoma, unusual in its delayed onset and association with indirect trauma, is described. Successful therapy consisted of continuous suction through a polyethylene catheter. Various methods of therapy, conservative and surgical, have been described in the ophthalmic literature, but no previous report was found of the employment of continuous suction.
D000059:Accidents; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery*; D013396:Suction / Q000379:methods*