This month’s image shows a metallic intraocular foreign body very close to the optic nerve. It was removed safely, despite initial immediate postop vitreous inflammation, and the patient recovered completely within three weeks, with unaided visual acuity of 20/20.
Credit: Costas H. Karabatsas, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of West Attica, Psachna, Greece.
