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The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body
Ocular foreign bodies (FBs) are often encountered in clinical practices. However, there are cases in which the presence of the FB is difficult to diagnose based on mere history taking and/or clinical examination. We herein present a case of unusual subconjunctival foreign body in the form of the sti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29133661 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_533_17 |
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author | Bhalerao, Sushank A Singh, Prabhakar Rani, Padmaja Kumari Rathi, Varsha |
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description | Ocular foreign bodies (FBs) are often encountered in clinical practices. However, there are cases in which the presence of the FB is difficult to diagnose based on mere history taking and/or clinical examination. We herein present a case of unusual subconjunctival foreign body in the form of the sting of a honey bee in a 63-year-old farmer. This was removed from the superior forniceal subconjunctival space in toto with forceps under a microscope in the operation theater. This case emphasizes the need to elicit a complete history and a careful ocular examination with double eversion of the eyelid to avoid missing any foreign body lodged in the fornices and subconjunctival space in patients who complained of foreign body sensation. |
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spelling | pubmed-57006032017-12-01 The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body Bhalerao, Sushank A Singh, Prabhakar Rani, Padmaja Kumari Rathi, Varsha Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Ocular foreign bodies (FBs) are often encountered in clinical practices. However, there are cases in which the presence of the FB is difficult to diagnose based on mere history taking and/or clinical examination. We herein present a case of unusual subconjunctival foreign body in the form of the sting of a honey bee in a 63-year-old farmer. This was removed from the superior forniceal subconjunctival space in toto with forceps under a microscope in the operation theater. This case emphasizes the need to elicit a complete history and a careful ocular examination with double eversion of the eyelid to avoid missing any foreign body lodged in the fornices and subconjunctival space in patients who complained of foreign body sensation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5700603/ /pubmed/29133661 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_533_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communications Bhalerao, Sushank A Singh, Prabhakar Rani, Padmaja Kumari Rathi, Varsha The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title | The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title_full | The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title_fullStr | The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title_full_unstemmed | The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title_short | The sting of a honey bee: An unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
title_sort | sting of a honey bee: an unusual subconjunctival foreign body |
topic | Brief Communications |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29133661 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_533_17 |
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