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Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Orbital Fractures
Published on: May 16, 2025
Intraorbital glass foreign body missed on CT imaging
Edwin C Figueira1, Ian C Francis, Geoffrey A Wilcsek
1Ocular Plastics Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, Prince of Wales Hospital, High Street, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
A 36-year-old woman presented with a 7-week history of foreign body sensation in the superior right orbit after orbital trauma sustained during an accidental face-down fall onto a broken drinking glass. CT identified a 10.35 x 3.91-mm radiopaque foreign body in the right orbit superolateral to the globe. Orbital exploration superficial to the levator palpebrae superioris aponeurosis in close proximity to the site occupied by the CT-identified foreign body revealed an additional glass intraorbital foreign body, 4.0 x 2.5 x 0.25 mm in dimension. The second glass foreign body was entirely missed on the preoperative, 1-mm axial scans combined with sagittal and coronal reconstructed images and plain radiography.
