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...

INTRODUCTION Ocular trauma is considered a health care problem because is an important cause for visual impairment. Intraocular foreign bodies are related to activities involving usage of metallic objects, but other materials can be present in the eye and have to be diagnosed and localized. Ultrasound biomicroscopy is an adequate subsidiary tool to evaluate an anterior chamber intraocular forei...

We present a case in which arthroscopy was used to remove foreign body debris secondary to an improvised explosive device (IED) from the wrist. The patient had noted pain for 6 months after sustaining multiple injuries after an IED detonation near the armored car in which he was traveling. He had pain on examination at the ulnar fovea with palpation and palpable clunking with forced ulnar devia...