title: [Intraorbital wooden foreign body, diagnosed by NMR and ultrasonography, and extirpation by cranio-orbital approach].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The case of the phlegmon of the left orbit associated with ophtalmoplegia and blindness in a 16-years old boy was presented. It was caused by the penetrafion of the wooden foreign body under unknown circumstances.
  
  
  METHODS
  Repeated CT scans did not reveal the presence of the foreign body before MR imaging and ultrasonography. The removal (43 x 8 mm) was done one month after the injury by osteoplastic orbitotomy, using microsurgical technique. Three months later the signs of inflammation and eye protrusion withdrew. Motility of the left upper lid and eye were normal.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MR imaging and ultrasonography were decisive in the diagnose of organic foreign body in the orbit.
authors.affiliation: Klinicki Centar Srbije, Institut za neurohirurgiju, Beograd. mnagulic@eunet.yu
authors.forename: Mirjana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagulić
authors.forename: Bozidar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ilić
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nikolić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014934:Wood