Optic Nerve Avulsion After Finger-Poke Injury

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Title Optic Nerve Avulsion After Finger-Poke Injury
Creator Tapan P. Patel, MD, PhD, Erica L. Archer, MD, Jonathan D. Trobe, MD
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (TPP, ELA, JDT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Department of Neurology (JDT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Abstract We present a case of optic nerve avulsion as a result of finger-poke injury to the eye. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated a plunging cup indicative of the avulsion, a finding not previously described. Optic nerve avulsion is a form of anterior indirect traumatic optic neuropathy evoked by a sudden severe rotation at the junction of the optic nerve and globe induced, in this case, by penetration of the finger into the nasal orbit.
Subject Optic Nerve Avulsion; Injury
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Date 2018-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Source Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, December 2018, Volume 38, Issue 1
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bc8bq0