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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 92-93 |
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An unusual case of globe-sparing penetrating orbital injury by a nail
Yishay Weill, Elena Drabkin, Joel Hanhart, Koby Brosh
Department of Ophthalmology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Correspondence Address:
Yishay Weill
Department of Ophthalmology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Shmu'el Bait St. 12, Jerusalem 9103102
Israel
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DOI: 10.4103/ojo.OJO_120_2016
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We describe a case of a 28-month-old boy who presented to our emergency department with a right orbital penetration by an iron nail. At presentation, no pain or functional loss were noted. Plain head radiographs and computed tomography were performed and demonstrated a two centimeters long nail penetrating the right orbit. The foreign body was extracted carefully in the operating room. No complications were observed upon follow-up. Rarely, orbital penetration by an iron-nail can present without functional disturbances or pain and is not necessarily accompanied by sequelae.
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