[Orbital wooden foreign body].
A 76-year-old-female patient fell in her garden, inducing a right orbital wound in which no foreign body was primarily found. As pain and diplopia followed the orbital trauma, a CT-scan was performed, disclosing a linear external foreign body in the right orbit. An anterior orbitotomy was performed to remove an 18-mm-long wooden foreign body. Histopathology of the tissue surrounding the foreign body showed an inflammatory fibrous tissue with small granulomas around telluric particles. Improvement after the operation was dramatic with complete disappearance of diplopia the day following surgery. Antibiotics were prescribed and tetanus prophylaxis was performed.
D'hermies
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Service d'Ophtalmologie du Pr Renard, Hotel Dieu, 1, place du parvis Notre-Dame, F-75181 Paris Cedex 04.
Halhal
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Morel
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X
Meyer
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A
Renard
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G
D000058:Accidental Falls; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009915:Orbit / Q000293:injuries*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014934:Wood