title: Lamellar corneal injury by bamboo splinters: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We report an unusual case of corneal lamellar injury caused by long bamboo splinters.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 70-year-old Japanese man visited our hospital with a bamboo injury. Slit lamp examination revealed that a bundle of bamboo splinters had deeply penetrated the corneal stroma of the right eye from the nasal limbus. The splinters were approximately 8 mm in length, but had not perforated the anterior chamber. They were completely removed by superficial corneal incision alongside each splinter with no consequences. The eye has remained healed for 3 months postoperatively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The bamboo splinters did not perforate the anterior chamber, although they were long and hard enough to do so. This may be because the spatula-like shape and flexibility of the bamboo splinters allowed them to penetrate the lamellar layer of the corneal stroma with ease, but with no perforation of deeper tissue.
authors.forename: Motoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawakita
authors.forename: Chika
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shigeyasu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shimazaki