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Life-Threatening Infections

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There are very few potentially fatal clinical conditions that present primarily to the ophthalmologist. Majority of these conditions are infective in nature and may have an acute, subacute, or even a chronic course. Three such conditions, cavernous sinus thrombosis, periocular necrotizing fasciitis, and invasive fungal sinusitis, have been reviewed in this chapter. This chapter aims to cover the clinical features, diagnosis, and management of these three clinical entities.

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    Akshay Gopinathan Nair MBBS, DNB & Milind N. Naik MD

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Nair, A.G., Naik, M.N. (2017). Life-Threatening Infections. In: Mukherjee, B., Yuen, H. (eds) Emergencies of the Orbit and Adnexa. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1807-4_35

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