PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anders Damm
AU  - Anne Øberg Lauritsen
AU  - Kristian Klemp
AU  - Rikke Vibeke Nielsen
TI  - Transorbital impalement by a wooden stick in a 3-year-old child
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2015-211885
DP  - 2015 Sep 02
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr2015211885
VI  - 2015
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2015-211885.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2015/bcr-2015-211885.full
AB  - We present a case of a 3-year-old girl with a transorbital impalement injury due to a wooden stick penetrating the lower inferior palpebra and progressing through the orbita, after the child jumped from a table and hit a wooden basket containing pieces of exposed stick. CT revealed the stick progressing transorbitally through the medial wall and terminating just below the sella turcica. The stick was successfully removed by neurosurgical and ophthalmological specialists. The eye was subsequently inspected, and showed no pathological findings. The girl was treated with topical chloramphenicol and discharged 2 days later. Follow-up examination 2 months after the trauma demonstrated normal visual acuity and ocular motility, with no diplopia, tearing or pain.