Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Wooden object moved behind eye before surgery in German shepherd dog
By Cherry, Rose L et al.·Published in Veterinary ophthalmology·2019·Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Migration of retrobulbar wooden foreign body between diagnostic imaging and surgical extraction in a German shepherd dog.
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Plain-English summary
A 2-year-old male German shepherd was brought to the vet with swelling around his eye and discharge from the eye two days after his owner removed a twig. Doctors suspected a piece of wood had gotten stuck behind his eye, and imaging showed a foreign body about 3 cm long. Attempts to remove it using ultrasound guidance didn’t work, and further imaging revealed that the foreign body had moved. Finally, with the help of advanced imaging techniques, the wooden piece was successfully removed during surgery.
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Abstract
A 2-year-old, male castrated German shepherd dog was presented to the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center (UTVMC) with periorbital swelling and conjunctival mucopurulent discharge 2 days following removal of a twig from the medial canthus by the owner. Diagnostic imaging was pursued due to the suspicion of a retrobulbar foreign body (FB). A cylindrical FB approximately 3.0 cm in length and 1.0 cm in diameter with concentric rings, suspected to be wooden material, was identified on computed tomography (CT) imaging. An attempt to remove the FB via a stab incision using ultrasound guidance was unsuccessful, and postmanipulation ultrasound confirmed the FB position was unchanged. An exploratory orbitotomy was performed, using the acquired CT images for guidance in locating the FB; however, the FB was not present at the predicted site. The CT imaging was repeated and showed that the FB had migrated rostrally approximately 3.0 cm, compared to the originally acquired study and its same location during attempted ultrasound-guided removal. A combination of CT-guided needle placement and contrast injection was then used with repeat imaging in an attempt to better localize the FB and its soft tissue tract. The dog was taken back into the operating room, and the wooden FB was successfully removed.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30289194/