Unusual perforating foreign body in the neck

Mk, Khan; Sharif, Alireza; Taous, Ahmmad; Mostafa, Mohammad Golam; Sc, Kundu; Hossain, Mohammad Ismail; Mg, Mustafa

doi:10.3329/mmj.v15i2.47

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“…Bamboo injury is unusual, and few cases have been reported where penetration has occurred with no perforation of blood vessels in the neck [5] or perforation of the eye ball [1,2]. The combination of ample rigidity to allow penetration with sufficient flexibility to allow avoidance of perforation may offer a potential explanation for this phenomenon.…”

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Lamellar corneal injury by bamboo splinters: a case report

et al. 2009

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IntroductionWe report an unusual case of corneal lamellar injury caused by long bamboo splinters.Case presentationA 70-year-old Japanese man visited our hospital with a bamboo injury. Slit lamp examination revealed that a bundle of bamboo splinters had deeply penetrated the corneal stroma of the right eye from the nasal limbus. The splinters were approximately 8 mm in length, but had not perforated the anterior chamber. They were completely removed by superficial corneal incision alongside each splinter with no consequences. The eye has remained healed for 3 months postoperatively.ConclusionThe bamboo splinters did not perforate the anterior chamber, although they were long and hard enough to do so. This may be because the spatula-like shape and flexibility of the bamboo splinters allowed them to penetrate the lamellar layer of the corneal stroma with ease, but with no perforation of deeper tissue.

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