Posterior Segment Intraocular Foreign Body: Extraction Surgical Techniques, Timing, and Indications for Vitrectomy

Table 1

Different IOFB extraction techniques.

	Patients	BCVA baseline	BCVA at 3 months	Accident-surgery interval	IOFB size	Extraction technique
Yuksel et al.	36 patients	20/550	20/120	14.2 ± 19.4 days	5.63 mm	“T” or “L” sclerotomy
Singh et al.	14 patients	20/647	20/29	No mention	1 to 5 mm	Translimbal
Park et al.	10 patients	—	—	—	2.75 ± 1.04 mm	Viscoelastic capture
Rusnak et al.	9 patients	20/25	20/20-	1 to 12 days	1.5 to 5 mm	Transscleral using magnet

converted from LogMAR.
converted from decimal.