Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome
Purpose: To report a patient with post traumatic ocularforeign body. Method: Case report with relevant review of literature. Results: A thirty year old female suffered trauma to right eye with bullet of toy gun. She presented with mild blurring of vision and redness. On examination, aforeign body wa...
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2011-10-01
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| author | Anoop Kishore Gupta Sourabh Sharma Neelam Pushker Mahesh Chandra |
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| description | Purpose:
To report a patient with post traumatic ocularforeign body.
Method:
Case report with relevant review of literature.
Results:
A thirty year old female suffered trauma to right eye with bullet of toy gun. She presented with mild blurring of vision and redness. On examination, aforeign body was seen in medial lower fornix. During exploration it was found to be embedded partially in sclera. The scleral perforation was partial thickness which was repaired. Theforeign body was an aluminum bullet of toy gun.
Conclusion:
This case highlights one of the rare presentations of closed globe injuries as superficial foreign body in sclera with partial thickness perforation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-487cf7827a214faeb59f5796d91eedd62025-08-20T03:09:31ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsDelhi Journal of Ophthalmology0972-02002454-27842011-10-0122212512710.4103/0972-0200.376578Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual OutcomeAnoop Kishore GuptaSourabh SharmaNeelam PushkerMahesh ChandraPurpose: To report a patient with post traumatic ocularforeign body. Method: Case report with relevant review of literature. Results: A thirty year old female suffered trauma to right eye with bullet of toy gun. She presented with mild blurring of vision and redness. On examination, aforeign body was seen in medial lower fornix. During exploration it was found to be embedded partially in sclera. The scleral perforation was partial thickness which was repaired. Theforeign body was an aluminum bullet of toy gun. Conclusion: This case highlights one of the rare presentations of closed globe injuries as superficial foreign body in sclera with partial thickness perforation.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/0972-0200.376578ocular traumaforeign body |
| spellingShingle | Anoop Kishore Gupta Sourabh Sharma Neelam Pushker Mahesh Chandra Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology ocular trauma foreign body |
| title | Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome |
| title_full | Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome |
| title_fullStr | Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome |
| title_short | Large Post Traumatic Ocular Foreign Body With Good Visual Outcome |
| title_sort | large post traumatic ocular foreign body with good visual outcome |
| topic | ocular trauma foreign body |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/0972-0200.376578 |
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