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Emerg Med J 2006;23:958 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.034611
  • Emergency casebook

The great fortune of misfortune

  1. S-H Tsai1,
  2. C-W Hsu1,
  3. S-J Chu1,
  4. J-L Shih2
  1. 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2Division of Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Department of Dentistry, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to: S-J Chu, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Road, Sec. 2, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan; d1204812@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw

      A 21 year old woman presented to the emergency department with a knife in the right side of her face (fig 1). On examination, she was awake and alert; the knife had entered the maxillary 0.8 cm below the inferior eyelid and continued epistaxis. Her visual acuity, pupils, and eye …

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