CASE REPORT article
Front. Ophthalmol.
Sec. Oculoplastics, Orbit and Trauma
Volume 5 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fopht.2025.1589771
Periorbital Necrotizing Fasciitis Repaired with Fish Skin Xenograft Eyelid Reconstruction Using Intact Fish Skin Xenograft Following Periorbital Necrotizing Fasciitis
Provisionally accepted
- West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, United States
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Periorbital necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare, vision-threatening soft tissue infection that requires rapid antimicrobial treatments to minimize devastating soft tissue destruction, and debridement of affected tissue results in extensive defects requiring various techniques of reconstruction. We herein describe a case of a 58-year-old male with periorbital NF who underwent eyelid repair with intact fish skin grafts. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of fish skin grafts being used in eyelid wound management after periorbital NF.
Keywords: fish skin graft, periorbital necrotizing fasciitis, Eyelid reconstruction, Xenograft, Necrotizing Fasciitis (NF)
Received: 07 Mar 2025; Accepted: 30 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shott, Wang and Nguyen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: John Nguyen, West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, United States
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