Management of intraretinal metallic foreign bodies without retinopexy

Intraretinal Foreign Bodies: Surgical Techniques and Outcomes

PURPOSE To report the clinical features of eyes with intraretinal foreign bodies (IRFBs) and to evaluate the results of surgical management in these eyes. METHODS Hospital records of 34 eyes of 33 patients with IRFBs were reviewed. All eyes underwent pars plana vitrectomy to remove the foreign bodies using intraocular forceps or by magnetic extraction. RESULTS All patients were male with me...

Intrathoracic metallic foreign bodies.

There is an extensive literature dealing with the immediate problems, both diagnostic and therapeutic, of penetrating injuries of the thorax, taut only a rather sparse amount of information on the late behaviour and appearance of intrathoracic metallic foreign bodies.'-'' In view of the large number of persons who have survived in the recent world conflict with such bodies still retained, it ma...

Intra-ocular Metallic Foreign Bodies.

THE purpose of this paper is to study the mass of an intra-ocular metallic foreign body and the problem of infection in a series of patients seen at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. Although there is much work on the problem of sepsis, there are few references in the literature to the mass of the fragment. The fibrous macromolecules of collagen in the outer coat of the eye are so arranged in compact ...

Management of rectal foreign bodies

BACKGROUND Entrapped anorectal foreign bodies are being encountered more frequently in clinical practice. Although entrapped foreign bodies are most often related to sexual behavior, they can also result from ingestion or sexual assault. METHODS Between 1999 and 2009, 15 patients with foreign bodies in the rectum were diagnosed and treated, at Izmir Training and Research Hospital, in Izmir. I...

Removal of Bullets and Other Metallic Foreign Bodies