Case of successful removal of piece of steel from the vitreous chamber / by Charles A. Oliver.

  • Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1853-1911.
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[1897]
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    ^ CASE OF SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL OF PIECE OF STEEL FROM THE VITREOUS CHAMBER * BY CHARLES A. OLIVER, A. M., M. D. PHU/ADELPHIA, PA. Attending Surgeon to Wills' Eye Hospital: Ophllialmlc Surgeon to the Ptiiladelphia Hospital, etc. On the 13th of December, 1899, I saw W. B., aged forty-eight years, at my clinical service at Wills' Hospital. Forty-eight hours previously, while cutting a rivet, he had been struck in the left eye with a piece of steel. At the moment of injury, the organ was posi- tioned in such a way as to allow the patient to gaze upward, backward and to the right of his head at the point from which the metallic chip was broken. He stated that he believed that the piece of steel was in the eye, as two X-ray pictures showing the presence of the foreign body in the eyeball had been made by Dr. William M. Sweet of this city. The patient, who was in bed in the hospital wards when I first saw him, had had atropine instilled and iced compresses applied by the resident surgeon, Dr. Charles Lukens. Examination showed an irregular linear wound of nearly one centimeter's length extending downwardly and outwardly in the scle- rotic just beyond the upper inner ciliary region. The upper lip of the scleral wound was somewhat inverted. The overlying conjunc- tiva was ecchymotic. The cornea was clear. The pupil was dilated * Thib brief article appeared In Its original form on the twenty-Hflh of May, 1900, number of the 'Bulletins de la Soci6t6 de Mfideclne du Department du Nord', pnbllslied in Lille, France. The present communication is its first appearance In English: mere mention of the case having been made In an X-r.'iy discussion at the February, 1900 meeting of the Section on Ophthalmology of the College of Physlclan,s of Philadelpliia.