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Pan Afr Med J
; 25: 8, 2016.
Artigo
em Francês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28154701
RESUMO
It is sometimes difficult to detect a plant intraocular foreign body, mostly in cases where the history of ocular trauma is unclear, or in patients who consult several months after the trauma. We report a rare case of a 7 year old child with self inflicted trauma of the the left eye by a cactus thorn 3 months before admission, which resulted in a temporal conjunctival granuloma with higher inflammatory reaction of the anterior segment. Surgical exploration was performed allowing the extraction of the thorn with total excision of the granuloma. A slight clinical improvement in visual acuity was observed, but the eyeball secondarily atrophied few months after extraction.