TY - JOUR ID - 100085 TI - Intraorbital Penetrating Pencil Injury in a Child JO - Trauma Monthly JA - TM LA - en SN - 2251-7464 AU - Torabi, Hamidreza AU - Tabatabai, Seyed-Ali AD - Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - EP - KW - Orbit KW - Foreign body KW - Pencil KW - CT KW - Scan DO - 10.5812/traumamon.34641 N2 - Introduction: Intraorbital penetration caused by foreign bodies can lead to blindness or even death following concomitant intracranial damage. Case Presentation: This study reports a three-year-old girl whose left orbit was penetrated by a long pencil. The penetration did not cause any ocular or neurological damage. Conclusions: A computed tomography (CT) scan is the key imaging study for diagnosing the location and the extension of a foreign body. In this case, it indicated a hypodense object with a high-intensity core that is compatible with the wooden and carbon parts of a pencil, respectively. The pencil was removed easily under general anesthesia and without complications. UR - https://www.traumamon.com/article_100085.html L1 - https://www.traumamon.com/article_100085_0e428299cd8435c59cb42ac026cb2d17.pdf ER -