Abstract
Forty-six patients (21 males and 25 females, aged from 1 to 85 years old, mean 38.7 years) with foreign bodies in the extremities were treated from 1983 to 1993.The foreign bodies were as follows; metallic fragments in 11 cases, glass fragments in 10, needles in 10, fragments of wood in 8, fish bone framents in 3 and others in 4.Radiographic examinations were useful for detecting the foreing bodies in 32 of 44 cases (72.7%). But only one of the seven cases with fragments of wood was detected by radiographic examination. Fragments of wood were inclined to cause infection, with infection observed in seven (87.5%) of eight cases, compared to other foreing bodies. In conclusion, we should consider the existence of infectious disease due to fragments of wood in cases without any episode of foreign body injury. Microsurgery is helpfulfor removing transparent foreign bodies like glass and fish bone fragments.
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