We report a patient with a wooden foreign body granuloma in the intervertebral disc space being symptomatic 17 years after a paraspinal penetrant trauma. According to the our result of the search for wooden foreign body granulomas, this is the first case suffered from a wooden foreign body granuloma in the intervertebral disc space that reported in the literature. In this report, we emphasized ...

Fig. 1. (A) A right anterior chest wall scar indicated the site of the penetrating inju deeper visceral involvement from that accident. The patient claimed that wound deb any further details of the injury or the management received. (B) Chest roentgeno hypodense center. Fibre-optic bronchoscopy demonstrated only a small amount of pur Computed tomography of the chest revealed a 7 cm long hollow ...

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 ...

The clinical manifestations of viper bite vary from minor local symptoms to life threatening hepatotoxic or vasculotoxic features. Bilateral parotid enlargement is mentioned as one of the clinical signs of viperine envenomation in the Indian National Snakebite Protocol 2009 [1]. However, this is a rare clinical sign, and has been only occasionally reported in adult victims [2,3]. The cause of p...

A 4-year-old boy, not known to have any medical illness, presented to several medical facilities reporting right upper quadrant and right flank pain, intermittent fever and chills for 3 months. A CT of the abdomen showed that a swallowed 'bobby pin' had pierced through the right kidney. This finding explained the boy's symptoms. The pin was removed by laparotomy without any subsequent complicat...