Unusual palpebral foreign bodies
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E Uchinuma1, A Satoh, T Matsukura
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kitasato Sagamihara Kanagawa, Japan.
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
We encountered cases of palpebral foreign bodies, which were a bamboo chip that entered in a trauma, a gelatinoid material that formed an iatrogenic ulcer, and self-injected lipstick. Treatments and complications of these unusual palpebral foreign bodies are evaluated.
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