Many hospitals experience one or more retained surgical instrument events with risk of patient morbidity and medicolegal problems. Identification of retained surgical instrument is important. The radiologists should be familiar with imaging finding of retained surgical instrument. In a 62-year-old female with a retained plastic tube, localized peritoneal infiltration around air-containing tubul...

purpose : to report for the first time, a presumable case of pediculus capitis corneal pseudo-infestation case report : our patient was a 35-year-old farmer presenting with symptoms and signs of ocular discomfort and inflammation. clinical examination suggested a retained corneal foreign body pathology of the lesion suggested a female pediculus humanus capitis (head louse). conclusion : arthrop...

A 4-year-old girl was admitted complaining of recurrent swelling, facial wound discharge and pain in the left cheek for 4 months with difficulty to open her month completely. Her parents report that after a fall, six months later, she presented a small facial laceration that had spontaneously healed. No particular symptom had developed during 2 months. After that time, the facial wound discharg...

Dear Editor, Intralenticular foreign bodies are uncommon after penetrating eye injuries, occurring in approximately 5% to 10% of cases [1]. They generally present with a decrease in visual acuity resulting from aggravation of a traumatic cataract. In Korea, there has been only one previous report of an intralenticular foreign body, which was retained for 6 months [2]. Several previous reports d...

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...