Penetrating orbital injuries from plant material during pond and river diving

Abstract

Diving into lakes and ponds is a common activity of rural children. We present two cases of penetrating orbital injuries from plant matter sustained in this manner. Such injuries pose a particular challenge because wooden foreign bodies are often missed during orbital exploration, and current imaging modalities cannot reliably identify retained organic material. When a patient presents with orbital penetration after a high-risk mechanism of injury, such as freshwater diving, the clinician must maintain a very high index of suspicion for retained wooden foreign body.

Keywords

• British Asians
• eye disease prevalence
• eye health care planning
• Indian subcontinent
• Frequency-doubling technology perimetry
• multifocal visual evoked potentials
• optic neuritis
• pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials
• Childhood blindness
• complications
• outcome
• pediatric cataract
• risk factors
• Developing countries
• glaucoma
• open-angle
• viscocanalostomy
• Iris claw enclaving
• lens extraction
• surgical aphakia
• Foreign body
• imaging
• orbit
• wooden