title: Retained intra-orbital shotgun cartridge.
abstract: A 45-year-old man under the influence of alcohol sustained a gunshot wound to the right eye. The mechanism of the trauma was unclear. Radiography revealed the image of a shotgun cartridge in the right orbit. The patient underwent surgical removal of the foreign body and enucleation of the right eye.
authors.affiliation: Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología, Hospital Roosevelt de Guatemala, Guatemala City. ccluislin@gmail.com
authors.forename: Chun Cheng
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: Marco Antonio
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Goens
authors.forename: Arturo R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Quevedo
authors.forename: Gildardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Girón
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015353:Eye Enucleation; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery