A Cross-Knotted Suture Basket Technique for Large Nonmagnetic Intraocular Foreign Body Removal

Figure 1

Construction of the cross-knotted suture basket. Two perpendicular sutures (in our case 7/0 Vicryl) were knotted to each other with two sets of crossed surgical knots ((a) and (b)). Then the four ends of the cross-knotted basket are all introduced into a 23- or 25-gauge needle, to form a soft basket (c), which is later to be inserted into the eye through a pars plana or limbal access with the needle.

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