Citation

Mashriqi F, Iwanaga J, Loukas M, D'Antoni AV, Tubbs RS. Cureus 2017; 9(9): e1725.

Affiliation

Neurosurgery, Seattle Science Foundation.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Curēus)

DOI

10.7759/cureus.1725

PMID

29201574

PMCID

PMC5707173

Abstract

Penetrating injuries to the orbit represent a small but very complicated portion of head injuries. Because of the close proximity to many vital structures, any penetrating orbital injury requires a multidisciplinary follow-up. Cases of penetrating injuries have flooded the literature, but no one has presented a systematic approach to the complications associated with these types of injuries. Herein, we present the complications associated with each orbital entry mode: superior, inferior, medial, lateral rims of the orbit, and extraorbital entry.

Language: en

Keywords

knife; orbit; pen; pencil; penetrating injury; rim