Jornal de Trauma e Tratamento

Severe Case of a Penetrating Orbital Trauma by Knife

Abstract

Di- Luciano, Andreas1 *, Tsimi C2 and Johnson T3

A 50-year-old patient, with no significant morbid history, suffers an assault and is attacked with a knife, receiving an injury in his left orbit (Figure 1). Patient is transferred to the emergency service. In the initial evaluation, normal neurological examination and the patient was hemodynamically stable. In the ophthalmological examination: the sharp object is seen in the medial region of the left orbit. The surrounding tissue had edema, which hindered the evaluation of that eye. The right eye is was normal.