Extracted Intra-Orbital Wooden Foreign Body Missed by the Primary Clinician

Intra-orbital wooden foreign bodies pose a significant challenge for clinicians as they are uncommon and difficult to diagnose due their unique characteristics. Surgery is usually recommended the presence of body can potentially induce severe complications, such diplopia, proptosis, loss vision. However, specific symptoms associated with these not yet well understood may, in some cases, take several years manifest. Moreover, imaging studies have high likelihood failing detect body. In this case, 74-year-old man presented worsening swelling redness right lower eyelid. He had fell his garden 6 months prior underwent computed tomography, which did reveal any evidence orbit. Subsequently, he was treated an optic canal fracture by ophthalmologist. Based on patient’s secondary tomography scan, we performed surgery addressing posttraumatic granuloma, abscess, During procedure, piece wood successfully extracted from conclusion, when patients experience orbital trauma present chronic symptoms, possibility retained orbit should be considered.