A 32-year-old woman arrived at A&E of Leicester Royal Infirmary University Hospital with her right eye swollen to the size of a golf ball (pictured left and right). She told doctors she had blown her nose 'forcefully' four hours earlier. They discovered she had orbital emphysema, swelling caused by air being forced into the tissues around the eye (a CT scan of the swelling is pictured, inset, with the yellow arrow pointing to the swelling). This injury is normally only seen in patients who have suffered a blow to
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