Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of patients
| Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | Case 4 | Case 5 | Case 6 | Case 7 | Case 8 | Case 9 | Case 10 | Case 11 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 26 | 53 | 17 | 45 | 28 | 52 | 26 | 31 | 17 | 8 | 7 |
| Gender | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Female |
| Eye | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | Left | Right | Right | Right |
| Mode of injury | Injury with glass fragment during a road accident | Accidental fall of the FB while working at a steel plant | Fall of the stone chip while cutting tiles | Injury by a glass of his own spectacles due to an accidental fall | Anterior migration through recti muscle and positioning in the corneoscleral limbus | Gunshot injury | Fall of insect | Fall of insect | Firecracker injury | Parents could not recall the mode of injury | History of trauma with pencil |
| Duration of Presentation | Chronic (2 years) | Acute (6 days) | Sub-acute (20 days) | Sub-acute (17 days) | Chronic (3 months) | Acute (3 days) | Sub-acute (20 days) | Sub-acute (13 days) | Chronic (5 years) | Acute (10 days) | Chronic (45 days) |
| BCVA on presentation | 6/18 | 6/6 | 6/9 | 6/9 | 6/9 | PL+, PR4+ | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/15 |
| Sle findings | Diffuse, microcystic sectoral edema (4-6.30 o’clock) with few bullae. On treatment with hyperosmotic agents, edema subsided and some refractive structure stuck to the DM in the AC was suspected. [Fig. 1a] | One metallic FB at 6.30 o’clock with surrounding infiltration and pigmentation, overlying epithelial defect, impacted deep into the stroma, posterior extent not clearly delineated [Fig. 2a] | Small-brownish deep intrastromal FB with surrounding minimal scarring, intact overlying epithelium, clinically no breach in the DM [Fig . 1c] | A deep intrastromal refractive FB with surrounding scarring with an intact overlying epithelium and an intact DM [Fig. 2c] | Deep intrastromal silicon band at corneoscleral limbus from 2 to 4.30 o’clock with the overlying intact epithelium, posterior margin not clearly delineated [Fig. 3b] | 3 metallic corneal FB, one in the anterior mid-stroma, second in mid-stroma, and third in the deep stroma with possible AC penetration. | Multiple setae in upper tarsal conjunctiva and intrastromal in the cornea with no anterior chamber reaction | Few tarsal setae with one corneal deep stromal setae at 3.30 o’clock with possible AC penetration [Fig. 4a] | Multiple shiny powdery intrastromal deposits with a surrounding nebular scar [Fig. 3a] | Transparent FB in visual axis with intact overlying epithelium [Fig. 1b] | Human hair (eyelash) in the AC with its nasal end impacted in the stroma, 5×1 mm full thickness self-sealed corneal scar surrounding impacted part of the hair [Fig. 4b] |
| BCVA final | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/9 | 6/9 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 6/15 |
FB: foreign body, DM: Descemet’s membrane, AC: anterior chamber, BCVA: best-corrected visual acuity, SLE: slit-lamp examination, PL: perception of light, PR: projection of rays