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OPHTHALMIC PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages E111-E113Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/IOP.0b013e318281eb1f
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In this case report, the authors describe an unusual complication of a frontalis sling suspension with silicone rods. A 5-year-old girl with blepharophimosis syndrome underwent frontalis sling suspension using an open sky technique. Four weeks after surgery, she was noted to have pustules over both upper eyelids and eyebrows. Cultures from the surgical sites grew Mycobacterium chelonae and Candida parapsilosis. Intravenous antibiotics and antifungals and sling explantation were curative. One month after sling explantation, the patient maintained an adequate marginal reflex distance 1. Atypical mycobacterial and Candida infection should be considered in the differential diagnoses of postoperative infection after frontalis sling suspension with silicone rods.
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