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 intraorbi...

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...

Crack cocaine is commonly smoked in a pipe with a metallic filter made from a steel wool scouring pad. We report an unusual complication of smoking crack cocaine: the aspiration and ingestion of a Brillo pad filter. A 34-year-old female presented 7 h after drinking beer and smoking crack. She was concerned that she might have inhaled the "screen" from her crack pipe, a piece of Brillo pad the s...

PURPOSE To review characteristics of open-globe injuries presented to Farabi Eye Hospital, a large referral center for serious ocular injury in the capital city of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 2,340 open-globe injury patients during a 5-year period was performed. Data about any patient that was diagnosed as open-globe injury were collected from medical records. RESUL...