Citation

Swanson JL, Augustine JA. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1992; 21(5): 568-571.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1570916

Abstract

Fishhook injuries rarely pose a true emergency, and only a few cases of posterior ocular injury from fishhooks have been described. We present a case of penetrating ocular, orbital, and cranial trauma produced by a broken fishhook. The morbidity and mortality as well as the initial emergency evaluation of penetrating foreign objects in the orbital-cranial region are discussed.

Language: en