Presentation
Tripped up and fell onto face, smashing sunglasses in the process. Presented a week later to ED with painful swelling of his eyelids.
Patient Data
Age: 40 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Periorbital foreign body
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Info
Small opacities projecting over the right orbit.
From the case:
Periorbital foreign body
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Two densities projecting in the upper and lower eyelids of the right orbit with mild surrounding inflammatory change.
No globe or retro-orbital abnormality.
Case Discussion
These radio-opaque densities on XR and CT were confirmed to be small fragments of glass in the superficial soft tissues. These were removed under local anaesthetic.
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