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Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 1996; 208(3): 201-202
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1035196
Diagnostisches Forum

© 1996 F. Enke Verlag Stuttgart

Mobilisation intraokularer Fremdkörper durch Magnet-Resonanz-Tomographie

Mobilisation of Intraocular Foreign Bodies by Magnetic Resonance ImagingStephan Kremmer, Ulrich Schiefer, Helmut Wilhelm, Eberhart Zrenner
  • Universitäts-Augenklinik Tübingen, Abt. Pathophysiologie des Sehens und Neuroophthalmologie (Dir.: Prof. Dr. E. Zrenner)
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Manuskript erstmalig eingereicht am 05.09.1995

in der vorliegenden Form angenommen am 14.11.1995

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08 February 2008 (online)

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Summary

A 49-year-old patient suffered from a binocular perforating trauma with metal foreign bodies in 1974. During an MRI examination in 1992 for a lumbar spine herniation a metal foreign body was mobilised from the deeper vitreal and retinal area, now causing optical disturbances freely floating in the anterior vitreous.

Refusing an operation, the patient, an electrical engineer, tried himself to remove the foreign body out of the optical axis by exposing his head to the electro-magnetic field of an induction coil (pulsed magnetic induction t0 at to of 0.26 Tesla).

The foreign body was split into multiple small parts no longer disturbing the patient.

To early detect a siderosis regular ophthalmological controls including ERG are necessary. This example stresses that even small intraocular metall foreign bodies are a contraindication for the usually applied field strength of MRI examinations.

Schlüsselwörter

Intraokulare metallische Fremdkörper - MRT - Mobilisation - Induktionsspule

Key words

Intraocular metal foreign bodies - MRI - mobilisation - induction coil

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