Congenital dermal facial temporal sinus: Rare presentation of intraorbital dermoid in children

We present a rare case of an intraorbital dermoid which was associated with a small temporal region dermal sinus in a 3-year-old child. This got infected and the child presented with orbital cellulitis. Definitive surgery involved excision of all the dermal elements using a superficial and intraorbi...

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Published in:Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Main Authors: Nandita A Saxena, Akshay G Nair, Bharati K Kulkarni, Pooja M Multani, Hemant N Lahoti, Shyam S Borwankar, Dipesh Goel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019
Subjects:
Dermal sinus
intraorbital dermoid
temporal region
Pediatrics
RJ1-570
Surgery
RD1-811
The Pointers
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_153_18
https://doaj.org/article/38eb8d5472b94c3e9349e229bfed735b
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Summary:We present a rare case of an intraorbital dermoid which was associated with a small temporal region dermal sinus in a 3-year-old child. This got infected and the child presented with orbital cellulitis. Definitive surgery involved excision of all the dermal elements using a superficial and intraorbital approach. We stress the need to evaluate, apparently benign lateral facial dermal sinuses as they may be the pointers of the underlying pathological deep dermoid cysts to avoid complications.

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