Penetrating eye injury is an important cause of ocular morbidity in India, especially in the pediatric and adolescent age group. Sometimes these injuries are associated with retained intraorbital foreign body. We report herein for the first time a child who had an open globe injury with a retained unusually large intraorbital foreign body (iron nut).
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Cureus
December 2024
Emergency Department, St Thomas' Hospital, London, GBR.
Intra-orbital organic foreign body injuries occur within the eye but without the involvement of the orbit itself. A 39-year-old man self-presented to the emergency department complaining of sudden onset of pain surrounding his left eye and of reduced vision. The initial examination was unremarkable except for two healing lesion marks above his left upper eyelid.
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December 2024
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Surg Neurol Int
November 2024
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya/Dr. Saiful Anwar General Hospital, Malang, East Java, Indonesia.
Background: Penetrating orbital trauma from a wooden foreign object is rare and challenging to identify, as it cannot be detected with a computed tomography (CT) scan. This report highlights the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of such a case.
Case Description: A 19-year-old female experienced penetrating orbital trauma from a wooden object following a traffic accident.
Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown)
November 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
October 2024
Department of ENT & Head Neck surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, Room No 329, B L Taneja Block, Delhi, India.
Intraorbital wooden foreign body is uncommon in patients with orbital trauma, and if present its complete surgical removal at the earliest is of utmost importance to avoid significant complications. We report an interesting case of an intraorbital wooden foreign body that was succesfully removed using a nasal endoscope.
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