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Images in emergency medicine
Look sharp
  1. Thomas Forshaw,
  2. Pierre Rautenbach,
  3. Fiona Irvine
  1. West of England Eye Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas Forshaw, West of England Eye Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK; forshawthomas{at}yahoo.co.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-203823

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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 …

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    Footnotes

    • Acknowledgements Raymond Mcleod, photographer.

    • Collaborators Pierre Rautenbach; Fiona Irvine.

    • 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.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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