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Dacryoadenitis
Aka: Dacryoadenitis, Lacrimal Gland Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Uncommon pediatric infection
- Pathophysiology
- Inflammation of lacrimal gland
- Causes
- Acute
- Gonorrhea
- Epstein Barr Virus
- Influenza
- Parainfluenza
- Chronic
- Sarcoidosis
- Sjogren Syndrome
- Graves Disease
- Syphilis
- Tuberculosis
- Trachoma
- Complications
- Rarely superinfected with Bacteria
- Differential Diagnosis
- See Dacryocystitis
- Management
- Conservative
- Warm compresses
- Analgesics
- If suspect secondary Bacterial Infection
- Cephalexin (Keflex)
- Consider treatment for Dacryocystitis
- References
- Singh in Roy (2013) EMedicine (online)
- http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1210342-overview