Citation

Bergmann J, Lee K, Klein R, Slonim CB. Ophthal. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 2009; 25(1): 44-46.

Affiliation

Department of Ophthalmology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida 33613, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/IOP.0b013e318193460d

PMID

19273923

Abstract

A 70-year-old woman who attempted suicide lay unconscious on her floor for an unknown time period while her 2 pet dachshunds chewed her upper face and bilateral periorbital areas including all 4 eyelids, both lacrimal glands, all of the conjunctiva from both eyes, the extraocular muscles on the left side only, and anterior orbital fat from both sides. A subtotal exenteration was performed on her left orbit and a temporoparietal fasciocutaneous flap was used to reconstruct her right orbit with buccal mucosa replacing both the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of such extensive orbital injuries from dog bites.

Language: en