Clinical Presentation and Management Strategies in Intraorbital Foreign Bodies
- Samreen Khanam
- Ayushi Agarwal
- Ruchi Goel
- Neha Rathie
- Akash Raut
- Shweta Raghav
- Sumit Kumar
- Mohit Chhabra
- Sonam Singh
- Sushil Kumar
DOIAbstract
The authors present a retrospective, observational case study of seven patients, who presented with retained Intra-Orbital Foreign Bodies (IOrbFBs) following penetrating orbital injury at a tertiary eye hospital over a period of one year. Cases were reviewed for epidemiological features, mechanism of injury, nature of foreign body, clinical features, imaging modality, associated complications, management outcomes, and the final prognosis. The mean age of presentation was 27.43 years. Amongst the seven patients, two were children (aged <10 years). The male : female ratio was 4 : 3. Of the seven retained IOrbFBs, two were plastic, two wooden, and three metallic in nature (one gunshot injury, one ball projectile (commonly referred to as BB) in...
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