a 37 - year- old man came to the hospital with a history of penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma due to gunshot wound in 10 days before. he underwent laparatomy and hepatorrhaphy in that time and right sided chest tube was inserted. chest ct scan revealed metallic foreign body in lung tissue due to bullet burst. right thoracotomy was performed and metallic foreign body extracted from lung tissue

introduction & objective: foreign body ingestion is a common and important condition that can be life threatening if not diagnosed and treated properly. diagnosis is especially difficult in patients with unusual symptoms. this study was performed to determine the incidence and complications of foreign body ingestion in the patients referred to shiraz khalili hospital. materials & methods: in th...

IN 1963 our out-patients department was visited by a 27-year-old man with a corneal foreign body. On slit-lamp examination, both corneae appeared to be studded with numerous tiny, grey-white points, which were situated in the epithelium. In retrolight they appeared as fine, round, or somewhat irregular vesicles or droplets spread over the entire corneal surface, apart from the limbal area. Towa...

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and complications of continuous wear of etafilcon A for therapeutic use. Materials and Methods: The subjects were 228 eyes of 219 outpatients prescribed Contact Lens (CL) for one week of continuous therapeutic wear during 10 years. The reason for prescription of CLs, the primary disease, the duration of CL wear and the complications were assessed retrospecti...

BACKGROUND A patient presented with a corneal foreign body in his only eye. He was treated with prophylactic antibiotics and sent home, but deteriorated. FINDINGS He returned to the hospital 5 days later, and on slit-lamp examination, there was ciliary injection, corneal oedema and a 1 mm × 1 mm corneal abscess with mild anterior uveitis. Corneal scrapings were taken for culture on a non-nutr...

A 20 year-old man presented with redness, severe visual loss and progressive protrusion of a horn-like mass from the palpebral fissure of his left eye (Fig. 1). He reported gradual appearance of a bubbly tissue on the left cornea progressively growing out of the palpebral fissure over the past several months. He had history of ocular trauma with a piece of glass from an exploding vial with unkn...