Bilateral panophthalmitis as the initial presentation of meningococcal meningitis in an infant

Endophthalmitis is a well-recognized, frequently devastating ophthalmic dis ease. The colonization of the eye and the subsequent development of endopht halmitis may be exogenous (including postsurgical and post-traumatic infect ions) or it may be of endogenous origin, representing a metastasis from a f ocus of infection elsewhere in the body associated with bacteremia (such as meningitis or cellulitis).