IN the 10 years 1946 to 1955, 816 cases of intra-ocular foreign body were admitted to Moorfields Eye Hospital, and 272 of them, which are analysed in this report, have been followed up for at least 3 years, no other method of selection being used. If the out-patient notes were not sufficiently up to date, a letter was written to the patient at his last known address asking him to re-attend for ...

Figure 1: Postoperative lateral chest X-ray showing the excellent alignment following short fixation, a chest tube to drain a pleural effusion, the cement leakage (arrow) and the vertebral reinforcement material (asterisk). The mechanism of the embolism was probably a vascular entry of cement during high pressure inflation to get the compressed vertebral separated. Figure 2: CT image: we can ob...

A 20-year-old female Japanese macaque, weighing 8.7 kg, developed severe pulmonary acariasis. Numerous whitish nodules, 2-4 mm, were scattered throughout the lungs. Histologically multifocal granulomatous lesions consisting of a large number of eosinophils, epithelioid cells, foreign body type giant cells, and collagen fibers were aggregated around the mait bodies. Numerous mast cells were also...

Chevalier Jackson and his disciples in pediatric bronchology and esophagology strove to conquer the 3 great illnesses of the early 20th century: lye ingestion with esophageal cicatrix formation, foreign-body aspiration, and tuberculosis. Jackson's successes and legacy were based on teaching through the use of clinical drawings and his improvements in instrumentation, which have saved generation...

purpose : to report a case of retained silicone tube case report : we report a case of 48-year-old iranian lady who referred to the department of otolaryngology with 18 years history of epiphora and intermittent mucopurulant discharge from the left lacrimal canaliculi. she had external dacryocystorhinostomy (dcr) with silicon stenting for epiphora 18 years ago but epiphora had continued after s...

introduction: foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. it can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract.   case report: a 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed du...

conclusions in patients with abdominal or pelvic masses and a history of previous abdominal surgery, the possibility of gossypiboma should be kept in mind. case presentation we report two patients (the first patient was 50 years old, with a history of an appendectomy three years ago in another city; the second patient was 52 years old, with a history of a cesarean section 25 years ago in anothe...

Inhalation of metal dusts and fumes can induce a wide range of respiratory disorders, including granulomatosis, chemical pneumonitis and pulmonary interstitial disease. Laryngeal cancer is the most common cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract. We present a patient with occupational lung disease whose chest CT showed miliary nodular pattern, with concurrent laryngeal cancer who had been engage...

A toddler presented with a 5-month history of recurrent episodes of cough, wheezing and fever. Before referral, the toddler had been initially diagnosed as having bronchial asthma and later as having pulmonary tuberculosis. On examination, the patient was febrile and had severe respiratory distress. Chest radiograph and high-resolution CT of the chest revealed collapse of the entire left lung w...