Intrascleral nerve loop mistakenly identified as a foreign body.
A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil. Histological study demonstrated that the pigmented lesion was an intrascleral nerve loop (Axenfeld).
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012590:Sclera / Q000294:innervation* / Q000473:pathology