Aug 072009
Here’s the head CT image from yesterday.
Yes, that round ball at the 11 o’clock position is the patient’s right eye protruding forward out of the eye socket! You can even make out the brighter lens in the front of the eyeball:
The reason is a long-neglected cancer destroying much of the right side of his face. Here’s another image slicing through a slightly lower portion of the face:
The left eye is in its normal position in the eye socket (the “orbit”), at approximately the 1 o’clock position of this image.


