Lid/Orbit
Hordeolum Externum
Also known as: stye, external hordeolum
Filed as: Routine
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Overview
Acute focal infection of an external eyelid gland (stye) causing localised tenderness and swelling.
Recognition
Symptoms: what patients report
- Localised tender lid lump
- Mild lid pain
Signs: what the examination shows
- Focal erythematous lid-margin lesion
- Localised swelling
What OptoGuide™ covers for hordeolum externum
- Pattern reasoning: what this combination of findings points to, and its differentiators
- Don't-miss risks and escalation triggers
- Management tiers with linked Australian therapeutics
- Referral urgency, specialty, and letter drafting
Sources
- Hordeolum — College of Optometrists Clinical Management Guideline
- Anterior Eye Disease and Therapeutics A-Z (Bruce & Loughnan) — standard reference text
- Clinicopathological characteristics, diagnostic challenges, and systemic implications of metastatic tumors to the eyelid: a systematic review. Bhanvadia V, Mehta S, Joshi U, Baisil S, B SK. Graefe's Archive for Clinical
- Eye Pain in Children. Aguilera ZP, Chen PL. Pediatrics in Review. 2016;37(10):418-425.
Standard texts: Kanski's Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach, The Wills Eye Manual, Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology, Oxford American Handbook of Ophthalmology, Signs in Ophthalmology: Causes & Differential Diagnosis.