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AI InsightWe present a case of an intraorbital organic foreign body that was initially unrecognized in the emergency department following trauma and was finally diagnosed 4 months later after development of an abscess.
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Abstract
Intraorbital organic foreign bodies present a particular diagnostic challenge to physicians. Delay in diagnosis and treatment may lead to serious complications such as orbital abscess or cellulitis. A suspicion of an intraorbital foreign body should be kept in mind when patients present with eyelid and orbit injuries caused by organic bodies. Organic foreign bodies are not radiopaque and therefore are not easily de- tected in both a plain X-ray film and a computed tomogram. Hence, magnetic resonance imaging is a better method of diagnosis in cases of suspected organic intraorbital foreign bodies. We present a case of an intraorbital organic foreign body that was initially unrecognized in the emergency department following trauma and was finally diagnosed 4 months later after development of an abscess.
Özet
Hekimler intraorbital yabancı cisimlerin tanısını koymakta güçlük yaşamaktadır. Tanıda gecikme orbital selülit ve abse gibi ciddi kompli- kasyonlara sebep olmaktadır. Göz kapakları ve orbitanın organik cisimlerle olan yaralanmalarında intraorbital yabancı cisim varlığından şüp- helenilmelidir. Organik yabancı cisimler radyopak olmadıklarından dolayı direkt grafilerde ve bilgisayarlı tomografide kolaylıkla görülmezler. Bundan dolayı, manyetik rezonans görüntüleme organik yabancı cisimlerin tanınmasında daha iyi bir yöntemdir. Çalışmamızda travma sonra- sı acil serviste tanısı konmayan, dört ay sonra abse gelişmesi sonucu intraorbital organik yabancı cisim saptanan olguyu sunmayı amaçladık.