[Acute rhinoethmoiditis with periorbital cellulitis in a newborn]

Abstract

Rhinoethmoiditis at newborn is rare. Possible complications include orbital abscess, orbital cellulitis, intracranial complications. Inflammation with orbital and periorbital acute onset at newborn present to clinician as therapeutical dilemma. Pathogenic links which involve this process began from cellulitis to orbital abscess, cavernous sinus thrombosis, cerebral abscess, meningitis. We present 2 cases of rhinoethmoiditis at newborn with orbital cellulitis, with the main differential diagnostic problems and therapeutical options.