@article {560256, title = {Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: A Masquerader in Sino-Orbital Infections.}, journal = {Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg}, volume = {32}, number = {5}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Sep-Oct}, pages = {374-7}, abstract = {PURPOSE: To report 2 immunocompromised patients with sino-orbital necrotizing pseudomonas infections and review the literature. METHODS: This is a noncomparative, retrospective case series, and review. The clinical data of 2 patients with histopathologic and microbiologic diagnoses of pseudomonas sinus infections causing orbital cellulitis were obtained from medical records. A retrospective literature review was performed on all reported cases of periorbital pseudomonas infections. RESULTS: One patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome was noted to have orbital cellulitis with clear visualization of eschar in the middle turbinate on nasal endoscopy. A second patient also had orbital cellulitis with ophthalmoplegia and presence of eschar in the sinus. Both patients had some degree of erosion through the lamina papyracea found on orbital imaging and both had intact vision without optic neuropathy. Pseudomonas infection was confirmed in both cases with permanent histopathology and cultures from conservative sinus debridement. CONCLUSIONS: Pseudomonas sino-orbital infections must be considered in the differential diagnosis in cases of eschar and orbital wall erosion especially when vision is preserved in immunocompromised individuals. This finding obviates the need for radical debridement including orbital exenteration, which can be indicated in cases of invasive fungal disease.}, issn = {1537-2677}, doi = {10.1097/IOP.0000000000000558}, author = {Chen, Xi and Bleier, Benjamin S and Lefebvre, Daniel R and Lee, Nahyoung Grace} }