A Missed Intraorbital Wooden Foreign Body Presented as Soft Tissue Mass
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Purpose: To present a case of missed intraorbital wooden foreign body presented as soft tissue mass Case report: We introduce a case of intraorbital wooden foreign body which presented with orbital soft tissue mass two years after trauma. A plain CT was requested which revealed a foreign body in the right orbit. Conclusion: It is frequently difficult to identify and localize organic intraorbital foreign bodies despite modern day high-resolution imaging studies.
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