title: Penetrating corneal fish-hook injury.
abstract: A healthy 13-year-old female was struck in the left eye by a fish-hook while fishing. The fish-hook penetrated the cornea, passed the anterior chamber and exited from a second corneal site near the limbus. The fish-hook was removed by cutting its shank and pushing it out of the wounds. Visual acuity was 20/20 OS after surgery. Mild corneal scarring was present at the penetration sites. We would like to report this case because there is a limited number of patients with penetrating corneal fish-hook injuries and this case presents the only female patient in the ophthalmological literature who suffered corneal fish-hook injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Cumhuriyet University School of Medicine, Sivas, Turkey.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yüksel
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Elibol
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cağlar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery; D065306:Corneal Injuries; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008670:Metals; D014792:Visual Acuity
chemical_list: D008670:Metals