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case_images: Foreign bodies collected in Petri dishes, vials, and various containers by patient between 2004 and 2023.
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case_images: Over the ensuing years, the patient amassed a large collection of foreign bodies that he had purportedly extricated from his superior fornices (Figure 1).
case_images: The patient provided samples of debris such as trumpet vine flower parts (a), acrylic carpet fibers, cat hair (b), thread, metal filaments (c), and insects (d) in Petri dishes to multiple ophthalmologists that he reports having collected from both eyes via daily eye flushing and using a mascara brush.
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case_images: On presentation, the patient provided samples of debris, among these were trumpet vine flower parts (Figure 2(a)), acrylic carpet fibers, cat hair (Figure 2(b)), thread, metal filaments (Figure 2(c)), and insects (Figure 2(d)).