he patient in this case had a penetrating injury with retained
IOFB. He underwent pars plana vitrectomy, intravitreal antibiotics
and removal of IOFB and fortunately avoided retinal detachment or
endophthalmitis. However, the projectile's point of impact left a full
thickness, displaced retinal laceration near the fovea with Bruch's
membrane and retinal pigment epithelium involvement apparent
on OCT. Five days after initial IOFB removal, he underwent intravitreal
gas injection to re-oppose the macular laceration. To our
knowledge, we are unaware of a similar case reported in the
literature.