2 cases of retention of wooden foreign body by penetrating intraorbital injury are presented. Initial failure to recognize the nature of the injury led to late intraorbital and intracranial complications, respectively.
These wounds may appear decept...
2 cases of retention of wooden foreign body by penetrating intraorbital injury are presented. Initial failure to recognize the nature of the injury led to late intraorbital and intracranial complications, respectively.
These wounds may appear deceptively minor and superficial, are often not accompanied by immediate ophthalmological and neurological changes, so they are considered trivial and over-looked. In addition, the wooden foreign bodies are not easily detected by routine rentgengraphic studies, which makes the diagnosis more difficult. Recently computerized tomography and magnetic resonace imaging are used helpfully in detection and localization of wooden foreign body.
The clinical usefulness and practical limitation of the diagnostic modalities and management of this type of injury are discussed.