WHEN Sophie Bell’s swelled to the size of a ‘golf ball’, her mum Carol assumed she’d just been rubbing it too much after a ...

Sophie Bell, 17, had been suffering from cold-like symptoms and daily headaches for around a month when she was rushed to ...

Seventeen-year-old Sophie Bell underwent a nine-hour surgery after a cold led to a "life-threatening" bacterial infection that spread to her brain.

Orbital cellulitis is the inflammation of eye tissues behind the orbital septum. It most commonly refers to an acute spread of infection in the eye socket from either the adjacent sinuses or through ...

Orbital cellulitis is an uncommon complication of ophthalmic surgery. It has been reported after strabismus surgery, blepharoplasty, radial keratomy and retinal surgery. 1,2 This is a short case ...

Imaging helped lead to the diagnosis and treatment of a 2-year-old girl who developed the life-threatening condition orbital cellulitis due to a dental abscess. The details were published on April 9 ...

Purpose To report 2 cases of severe necrotising orbital cellulitis which illustrate the need for aggressive surgical management to prevent blindness. Methods The case records of 2 patients with ...

BOSTON — The introduction of the Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib) vaccine has coincided with a sharp decline in the number of periorbital and orbital cellulitis cases related to H. influenzae, according ...

A collective gasp went up as the patient poked his head into the staff work area. The poor little guy looked like a toddler Rocky after his final round in the ring. But instead of looking bruised, ...

The dad's eye began to throb and swell up so much it 'felt like it was going to explode' A DAD’S “pink eye” turned out to be a killer infection that left him looking like “Sloth from The Goonies”.

Mum Charley received dirty looks when taking her daughter to hospital, due to cellulitis making the five-month-old look like she had a black eye (Picture: Caters News) Mum-of-two Charley Finch, 22, ...