title: A metallic foreign body presenting in the anterior chamber angle.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: Arunan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sivalingam
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D008670:Metals