title: Mucus extravasation into the orbit during frontal sinus irrigation.
abstract: During minitrephination and irrigation of the frontal sinus, mucus extravasated into the orbit through a defect in the sinus floor. The mucus incited a foreign body reaction and became encapsulated within the orbit necessitating excision via an anterior orbitotomy.
authors.affiliation: South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology and Discipline of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia. nick.h.andrew@gmail.com
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Andrew
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pirbhai
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moffat
authors.forename: Suresh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajapaksa
authors.forename: Peter-John
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Wormald
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Selva
mesh_terms: D005119:Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D019793:Fluorescein / Q000378:metabolism; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009093:Mucus / Q000378:metabolism*; D009298:Nasal Polyps / Q000601:surgery; D059747:Nasal Surgical Procedures; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000601:surgery; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000601:surgery; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000378:metabolism; D013396:Suction; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride; D019793:Fluorescein