A metallic foreign body presenting in the anterior chamber angle.
OBJECTIVE
This article describes a case in which a patient presented with a previously undetected metallic foreign body in the anterior chamber angle.


RESULTS
A 42-year-old Hispanic man presented with a 5-day history of foreign-body sensation and redness in his left eye. He had been using a hand saw without safety glasses 2 days before the onset of his initial symptoms. Physical examination revealed a metallic foreign body embedded in the inferior angle of his left eye. Surgical removal of the foreign body was performed, and the patient remains well 1 year after surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
All physicians should maintain a high degree of clinical suspicion for intraocular foreign bodies when presented with a patient who may have sustained ocular trauma. All eye-care providers need to emphasize the need for proper eye protection to patients who engage in high risk activities that may lead to penetrating ocular trauma.
Davidson
Richard S
RS
Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sivalingam
Arunan
A
D000328:Adult; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006068:Gonioscopy; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D008297:Male; D008670:Metals; D014463:Ultrasonography
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