An intraorbital wooden foreign body: Description of a case and a variety of CT appearances

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-43

  Yamashita, Koji ^a   Noguchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Mihara, Futoshi ^a   Yoshiura, Takashi ^a   Togao, Osamu ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Honda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Changes of Hounsfield units (HU); Computed tomography; Intraorbital wooden foreign body; Time course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE SURGERY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; ORBIT; ORBIT INJURY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORBIT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOOD;

EID: 34147145259     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0597-x     Document Type: Article

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