The following case, provided by Michael Cater, MD, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, California, is the first of a two-part series.
Check back next month for the second installment.
In 1972, a 6-year-old boy in Okinawa is seen for a sore near the margin of his left lower eyelid. It appeared 2 days earlier, accompanied by some mixed pain, itching and mild erythema and swelling of the infraorbital soft tissue.
The parents deny any recent injury to the eye or illness, and his overall health is described as very good. Likewise, his past medical history is that of a