Very Challenging Cases to Diagnose: Concealed Foreign Bodies in the Upper Palpebral Conjunctiva Should Always Be Kept in Mind in Unresolved, Long-Lasting Chronic Ocular Pain.

ABSTRACT: Ocular pain is a common complaint, and anything that stimulates the sensory nerve terminals innervating the eye, the peripheral axons of neurons located in the trigeminal ganglion, can cause it. An undetected ocular foreign body sometimes masquerades as a common condition such as dry eye or other frequencies, which can misguide both the doctor and the patient into an endless cycle of ineffective therapies and incomplete diagnoses. In recent years, as the concept of neuropathic pain has become more widely recognized, cases of idiopathic ocular pain in which the actual cause of the discomfort is a foreign body seem to be increasingly misdiagnosed as neuropathy. This report reviews cases in which hidden foreign bodies were responsible for unresolved, long-lasting chronic ocular pain. All reco

SUBMITTER: Tanabe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9808304 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature