A Case of Intraorbital Foreign Body Removed Using A Magnet Under C-arm Fluoroscopy.

Lee, Han Kee; Lee, Sul Gee; Yang, Jae Wook

doi:2007.48.10.1410

J Korean Ophthalmol Soc > Volume 48(10); 2007 > Article

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2007;48(10):1410-1414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3341/jkos.2007.48.10.1410 Published online October 31, 2007.

A Case of Intraorbital Foreign Body Removed Using A Magnet Under C-arm Fluoroscopy.

Han Kee Lee, Sul Gee Lee, Jae Wook Yang

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine Inje University, Pusan, Korea. eyeyang@inje.ac.kr

C자형 투시장치와 자석을 이용한 안와내 이물제거 1예

이한기,이슬기,양재욱

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine Inje University, Pusan, Korea

Correspondence: Jae Wook Yang, M.D.

Abstract

PURPOSE
We report a case of an intraorbital foreign body removed in a walk-in patient using a magnet under fluoroscopy. METHODS: A patient walked into the eye clinic complaining of ocular pain caused by foreign body that pernetrated into his right lower eyelid while mowing the lawn one day before he came to the hospital. Since an orbital foreign body was observed when the patient entered the hospital, and a high-density metallic response was diagnosed within the orbit from a computerized tomogram, we performed an emergency operation to take out the foreign body within the orbit. RESULTS: We removed the metallic foreign body, which was 5 mm in size and buried in the orbital fat, in an operation using a magnet under fluoroscopy. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that fluoroscopy and magnets are an efficient operative means of removing foreign bodies that are found within the orbital fat layer and are difficult to access.

Key Words: Intraorbital foreign body;Magnets;Fluoroscopy