Restoration of vision after surgical removal of an intraocular needlefish jaw.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the case of a globe-penetrating intraocular needlefish injury.


METHODS
Clinicopathologic case report.


RESULTS
A 38-year-old man had a globe-penetrating injury while swimming without eye protection in the Caribbean Sea. The foreign body was impaled in the nasal retina. After surgical removal, retinal repair, and subsequent cataract surgery, the best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the affected eye. Histopathologic examination of the foreign body was consistent with a needlefish jaw.


CONCLUSIONS
This is the first reported case of a successful visual outcome after the surgical removal of an intraocular needlefish jaw. Furthermore, we advise that ophthalmologists should be recommending eye protection to people swimming in waters endemic to this dangerous fish.
Departments of *Ophthalmology †Laboratory Medicine (Pathology), University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
Mohamed
M
Al-Abri
William A
WA
Britton
Joshua S
JS
Manusow
Seymour
S
Brownstein
Vivek
V
Patel
Bernard
B
Hurley
Peter
P
Agapitos