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This material contains content which some users might find distrubingPenetrating Ocular Fishhook Injury!
A man in his 30s presented with a fishhook injury to his left eye and lower eyelid after fishing in Everglades National Park. His visual acuity was hand motions, and intraocular pressure measurement was deferred in that eye. Findings from examination of the left eye showed a penetrating injury with a 3-pronged barbed fishhook, with 1 prong lodged in the anterior chamber and another lodged in the lower eyelid. The status of the crystalline lens was unclear owing to corneal edema. No hypopyon was visualized. The patient was brought to the operating room for removal of the fishhook, closure of the cornea and eyelid lacerations, and injection of intracameral antibiotic drugs.
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