Aspiration from the vitreous of a non-magnetic foreign body

Hector B. Chawla; Joseph A. Coleiro; Fridbert Jonasson

doi:10.1136/bjo.62.11.788

Aspiration from the vitreous of a non-magnetic foreign body

Hector B. Chawla, Joseph A. Coleiro, Fridbert Jonasson

Faculty of Medicine

University of Iceland

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Abstract

A non-magnetic vitreal foreign body was aspirated from over the macula through the pars plana. The surgeon guided a blunt needle towards the foreign body while watching both with the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope. His assistant's tentative suction movements with an attached syringe drew the foreign body up into the needle without risking a retinal perforation. Visual recovery was complete. It is suggested that aspiration might be the procedure of choice for such small visible intraocular fragments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	788-789
Number of pages	2
Journal	British Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume	62
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.62.11.788
Publication status	Published - 1978

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