[Intraorbital wooden foreign body, diagnosed by NMR and ultrasonography, and extirpation by cranio-orbital approach].
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.
Nagulić
Mirjana
M
Klinicki Centar Srbije, Institut za neurohirurgiju, Beograd. mnagulic@eunet.yu
Ilić
Bozidar
B
Nikolić
Igor
I
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