Occult intraocular foreign body presenting as squint

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

Occult intraocular foreign body masquerading as panuveitis: inductively coupled mass spectrometry and electrophysiologic analysis

Retained intraocular foreign bodies (IOFB) may rarely present as chronic uveitis, either with isolated anterior uveitis or with posterior segment inflammation. The heavy metals copper and iron may lead to both acute and chronic inflammatory processes resulting in severe inflammation, retinal degeneration, and resultant visual loss. Penetrating or perforating ocular injuries are easily recogniza...

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 ...

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...

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...