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Images in emergency medicine
Images in emergency medicine
Scleral foreign body
  1. Alexander Silvester,
  2. Sunlidath Cazabon
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alexander Silvester, Department of Ophthalmology, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Countess of Chester Health Park, Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 1UL, UK; asilvester{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-203817

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors Both authors were involved in the management of the patient, and took the photographs. AS wrote the case report.

    • Competing interests None.

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