Elsevier

Injury

Volume 17, Issue 6, November 1986, Pages 404-406
Injury

Detection of glass foreign bodies by radiography

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Abstract

During a 14-month period patients with suspected glass foreign bodies were radiographically examined before removal of the glass. In 25 out of 26 patients the glass foreign bodies were detected. In 9 patients the glass foreign bodies had been overlooked on previous visits to doctors or hospitals, where the examination had been limited to inspection and sometimes probing of the wound.

Almost all glass foreign bodies can be detected radiographically. With high-resolution or mammographic techniques even minute splinters may show up.

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A paper based on the same material was read at the proceedings of the Danish Orthopaedic Society, Copenhagen, 26 October 1984.

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