Neglected intraocular wooden foreign bodies

doi:10.11604/pamj.2018.29.201.12092

Original article | Volume 29, Article 201, 06 Apr 2018 | 10.11604/pamj.2018.29.201.12092

Neglected intraocular wooden foreign bodies

Hanane Oummad, amina Laghmari

Corresponding author: Hanane Oummad, University of Mohamed V Souissi, Hôpital des Spécialités, Ophtalmology A Department, Morocco

Received: 25 Feb 2017 - Accepted: 26 Jan 2018 - Published: 06 Apr 2018

Domain: Clinical medicine, Ophtalmology

Keywords: Wooden foreign body, lens, iris

^©Hanane Oummad et al. Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cite this article: Hanane Oummad et al. Neglected intraocular wooden foreign bodies. Pan African Medical Journal. 2018;29:201. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2018.29.201.12092]

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Neglected intraocular wooden foreign bodies

Hanane Oummad^1,&, amina Laghmari¹

¹University of Mohamed V Souissi, Hôpital des, Spécialités, Ophtalmology A Department, Morocco

^&Corresponding author
Hanane Oummad, University of Mohamed V Souissi, Hôpital des Spécialités, Ophtalmology A Department, Morocco

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A 13-year-old child had left orbital trauma by wood. He consulted 2 week after for decreased visual acuity and eye pain. The ophthalmological examination showed the presence of a wound of autotight cornea a wooden foreign body incarcerated in the iris and the lens. Extraction of the foreign body associated with an adapted antibiotic treatment led to clinical improvement.

Figure 1: wooden foreign body incarcerated in the iris and the lens