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In Situ Visualization of the Phase Behavior of Oil Samples Under Refinery Process Conditions
Published on: February 21, 2017
Oil, you're kidding me!
James Austin1, Channa Vasanth Nadarajah1
1Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
A 47-year-old female collapses with loss of consciousness secondary to septic shock and is found to have a left orbital fracture and a right orbital mass that was not seen on imaging two years ago. The mass is reported as a possible ocular melanoma. She is free of any eye pain, ophthalmoplegia or deterioration of vision but has pre-existing extensive diabetic proliferative retinopathy. One year ago, she underwent delamination and segmentation with silicone oil injected as a tamponade agent into the right eye. She is seen promptly in the ophthalmological clinic where fundoscopy reveals this mass to be the silicone oil and no further action is required.
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