PP458 : JUST A GRAZE, BY GOD’S GRACE! SINO-ORBITAL WOODEN STICK INJURIES WHICH SPARED THE EYEBALL

Dr.Nidhi Gadkar

Orbital injuries (blunt or penetrating) usually cause severe trauma and are vision threatening. Injuries many times are not limited to the orbit and thus damage to adjacent vital structures also occurs. Presenting two unusual cases of orbital foreign bodies occupying different compartments of the orbit and head and neck region with no preoperative surety about the status of the eye ball which required a multidisciplinary approach for removal. 1st case had 8.5 cmx1.5 cm foreign body traversing bilateral orbits and ethmoid sinus. 2nd case had 18cmx1cm foreign body passing inferomedially through the orbit and maxillary sinus into posterior wall of nasopharynx upto the styloid process of opposite side with fracture sphenoid. Both cases had near normal visual outcomes postoperatively.