The authors describe an accident leading to penetration of the eye of an 11-year-old boy by an unusual foreign body, and the subsequent diagnosis and treatment. Persistent ocular irritation following a corneal perforation wound, in spite of appropriate treatment, led to the presence of an intraocular foreign body being suspected. The results of radiologic examination, including CT (Siemens Somatom 2), were negative. Only A-scan sonography (Kretztechnik 7002) called attention to the possibility of a foreign body in the vitreous behind the traumatic cataract. Extracapsular extraction was immediately followed by careful removal of very small foreign-body particles from the vitreous. Once the corneal sutures had been removed the irritation decreased. The scanning electron microscope (Cambridge) images of the largest particle showed the foreign bodies to be fragments of a moth (order Noctuideae).
- MeSH
- cizí těleso v oku patologie MeSH
- dítě MeSH
- Lepidoptera anatomie a histologie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mikroskopie elektronová rastrovací MeSH
- můry anatomie a histologie MeSH
- penetrující rány patologie MeSH
- poranění rohovky * MeSH
- sklivec patologie MeSH
- ultrasonografie MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- dítě MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- anglický abstrakt MeSH
- časopisecké články MeSH
- kazuistiky MeSH
