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A 20-year-old builder presented to casualty with a moderately painful red right eye. On further enquiry, a clean nail had been thrown at him resulting in direct impact to his right globe. The entire nail was recovered after the injury. His visual acuity was normal at 6/5 in each eye. Inspection revealed a …
Footnotes
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Acknowledgements Raymond Mcleod, photographer.
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Collaborators Pierre Rautenbach; Fiona Irvine.
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Contributors TF and PR drafted the case report. FI reviewed the case report. All the authors considered the case report in the context of the literature prior to submission.
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Competing interests None.
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Patient consent Obtained.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.