title: Intraorbital foreign body.
abstract: Penetrating orbitocranial injuries caused by intraorbital foreign body are a rare cause of morbidity being most common among young people. The term intraorbital foreign body refers to a foreign body that occurs within the orbit but outside the ocular globe. We report the case of a 12-year-old male child who sustained a right cranial facial trauma due to accidental fall on a piece of wood, which penetrated intraorbitally. Native cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI -1.5 T) revealed the presence of an intraorbital foreign body, 6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, near the orbital apex. In our patient, early surgical extraction of the foreign body had a decisive role on his full recovery. In this case, although a large foreign body penetrated the entire length of the orbit, it did not cause damage to any intraorbital structure. Vision and right ocular globe function had an excellent prognosis.
authors.forename: Dana Mihaela
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Turliuc
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Costan
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Cucu
authors.forename: Claudia Florida
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Costea
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D002648:Child; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D009915:Orbit; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014934:Wood