title: [Echographic diagnosis in orbital complications of inflammatory diseases of he paranasal sinuses].
abstract: A- B-scan sonography was performed in a consecutive series of 123 patients with acute orbital complications of inflammatory paranasal sinus diseases. Orbital edema was correctly diagnosed by echography in 100% orbital periostitis in 81%, subperiosteal abscesses in 100%, and orbital cellulitis in 92%. In a second series, 40 mucopyoceles were all correctly diagnosed by sonography. Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
authors.affiliation: Univ.-Augenklinik Mainz.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rochels
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D004487:Edema / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000473:pathology; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000473:pathology; D010522:Periostitis / Q000473:pathology; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000473:pathology*; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Echographische Diagnostik bei orbitalen Komplikationen entzündlicher Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen.