Orbito-sinal foreign body with floor fracture: an unusual presentation.

GMS Ophthalmol Cases

Department of Orbit and Oculoplasty, Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya, Shri Sadguru Seva Sangh Trust, Jankikund, Chitrakoot, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Published: August 2020

Wooden foreign bodies penetrating through the orbit into paranasal sinuses are rare. We report a case of a young male who complained of double vision, pain and redness after a fall from a tree. There was no external wound over periocular skin. The clinical and radiological examination was suggestive of an inferior orbito-sinal wooden foreign body with floor fracture, which was managed by surgical removal of the foreign body and orbital floor fracture repair using a silicon sheet in a single sitting.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7452952PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/oc000159DOI Listing

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