Retained intra-orbital shotgun cartridge.
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.
Lin
Chun Cheng
CC
Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología, Hospital Roosevelt de Guatemala, Guatemala City. ccluislin@gmail.com
Goldberg
Robert
R
Goens
Marco Antonio
MA
Quevedo
Arturo R
AR
Girón
Gildardo
G
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