Abstract
Idiopathic orbital pseudotumour is rare in children. We report a case of bilateral paediatric idiopathic orbital pseudotumour and review the characteristics of this case. A 14-year-old female patient presented at our Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) with complaints of recurrent severe cold and cough for 3 weeks, which had been treated with an intravenous antibiotic. Meanwhile, the patient developed swelling of both eyelids during the period of cold and cough, but her symptoms did not improve after the ocular administration of tobramycin dexamethasone eye drops. The patient was referred from the respiratory medicine ward to our department because of gradually worsening ocular pain, visual deterioration, increased intraocular pressure and serious nausea/vomiting within 24 h of hospitalization. The diagnosis of bilateral idiopathic orbital pseudotumour was made ultimately because of the course of the disease, exclusion of diagnoses such as bacterial ocular infection or malignant tumours and subsequent evidence from orbital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Favourable progress in the ocular tension and eyelid swelling was achieved through treatment with intravenous dexamethasone. The binocular intraocular p...Continue Reading
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