'Lost' contact lens presenting as an intraocular foreign body.

'Lost' contact lens presenting as an intraocular foreign body.

Presenting as an anterior chamber foreign body

A woman aged 31, first seen in April, i969, had recently come to live in England from India. She complained of poor vision in the right eye and of a divergent squint. Her vision had been poor since early childhood, particularly in the right eye, and there had ceased to be useful vision in the right eye at the age of 20. An operation had been performed on the right eye under local anaesthesia wh...

Retained intraocular iron foreign body presenting with acute retinal necrosis

We report an unusual case of retained metallic intraocular foreign body (IOFB) presenting with acute retinal necrosis (ARN). A healthy young man presented with signs of ARN including hypopyon, dense vitritis, and peripheral retinal necrosis following alleged history of trauma with a high-velocity projectile. After initial management of ARN with systemic antivirals, a retained metallic IOFB was ...

Nasal foreign body presenting as unilateral headache.

We report a 6 year old female child, who presented with history of right sided recurrent headache for four months. On diagnostic nasal endoscopy, a metallic foreign body was seen impacted between superior turbinate, middle turbinate and nasal septum which was removed using pediatric nasal endoscope. Following removal, the symptom of unilateral headache subsided. Possibility of a foreign body sh...

Iraq-Iran War-related Intraocular Foreign Body Injuries in Veterans

According to military documents, the incidence of ocular injuries significantly increases. Intraocular foreign body (IOFB) is one of the ocular damages that seriously threats vision. Many ocular injuries occurred in a war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988. The aim of the present study was to review ocular damages made by IOFB in this war, different methods of treatment and their prognosis.