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Steven B. Flynn, MD, PhD; Thomas C. Cannon, MD, MPH; Tracey Schmucker, MD; Romona Davis, MD; Christopher Westfall, MD
Little Rock, Ark

Arch Ophthalmol. 2004;122:296-297.

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A man complained of severe pain and decreased vision in the right eye after being stabbed with a pencil during an altercation 1 week before being seen by the ophthalmology service. A laceration to the upper eyelid had been closed on the day of the altercation, but no imaging studies had been obtained. A computed tomographic image obtained at the time of the ophthalmology service referral showed a foreign body (FB) abutting the globe (Figure 1). The patient underwent surgery that night, and a 4.6-cm section of a No. 2 pencil was removed (Figure 2).

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 1. Computed tomographic image demonstrating a right orbital foreign body passing through the lamina papyracea and ethmoid sinus, with one end of the object embedded in the right nasal septum and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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