Cut-it-out technique for ocular fish-hook injury

An 11-year-old boy was involved in an injury with a fish-hook to his eye. The hook had impaled itself to the cornea and deeper structures. There was associated corneal edema and hyphema, making visualization difficult. In this case, we performed the unusual “cut-it-out” technique to remove the hook...

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Autores principales: Ahmad, Syed Shoeb, Seng, Chiang Wai, Ghani, Shuaibah Abdul, Lee, Jane F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339666
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.120384
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description An 11-year-old boy was involved in an injury with a fish-hook to his eye. The hook had impaled itself to the cornea and deeper structures. There was associated corneal edema and hyphema, making visualization difficult. In this case, we performed the unusual “cut-it-out” technique to remove the hook from the eye.
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spelling pubmed-38415402013-12-11 Cut-it-out technique for ocular fish-hook injury Ahmad, Syed Shoeb Seng, Chiang Wai Ghani, Shuaibah Abdul Lee, Jane F J Emerg Trauma Shock Case Report An 11-year-old boy was involved in an injury with a fish-hook to his eye. The hook had impaled itself to the cornea and deeper structures. There was associated corneal edema and hyphema, making visualization difficult. In this case, we performed the unusual “cut-it-out” technique to remove the hook from the eye. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3841540/ /pubmed/24339666 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.120384 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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