Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report

BACKGROUND: Sclopetaria is a rare ophthalmic finding in trauma CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a patient who developed macular holes from sclopetaria induced by indirect trauma. A 22-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound that passed behind his eyes, resulting in bilateral macular hole forma...

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Autores principales: Kunjukunju, Nancy, Navarro, Alicia, Oliver, Scott, Olson, Jeff, Patel, Chirag, Garcia, Gerardo, Mandava, Naresh, Quiroz-Mercado, Hugo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-10-6
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author Kunjukunju, Nancy
Navarro, Alicia
Oliver, Scott
Olson, Jeff
Patel, Chirag
Garcia, Gerardo
Mandava, Naresh
Quiroz-Mercado, Hugo
author_facet Kunjukunju, Nancy
Navarro, Alicia
Oliver, Scott
Olson, Jeff
Patel, Chirag
Garcia, Gerardo
Mandava, Naresh
Quiroz-Mercado, Hugo
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description BACKGROUND: Sclopetaria is a rare ophthalmic finding in trauma CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a patient who developed macular holes from sclopetaria induced by indirect trauma. A 22-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound that passed behind his eyes, resulting in bilateral macular hole formation CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which trauma posterior to the globes caused bilateral macular hole formation
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spelling pubmed-28475492010-03-31 Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report Kunjukunju, Nancy Navarro, Alicia Oliver, Scott Olson, Jeff Patel, Chirag Garcia, Gerardo Mandava, Naresh Quiroz-Mercado, Hugo BMC Ophthalmol Case report BACKGROUND: Sclopetaria is a rare ophthalmic finding in trauma CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a patient who developed macular holes from sclopetaria induced by indirect trauma. A 22-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound that passed behind his eyes, resulting in bilateral macular hole formation CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in which trauma posterior to the globes caused bilateral macular hole formation BioMed Central 2010-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2847549/ /pubmed/20298610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-10-6 Text en Copyright ©2010 Kunjukunju et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Kunjukunju, Nancy
Navarro, Alicia
Oliver, Scott
Olson, Jeff
Patel, Chirag
Garcia, Gerardo
Mandava, Naresh
Quiroz-Mercado, Hugo
Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title_full Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title_fullStr Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title_short Bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
title_sort bilateral macular hole formation secondary to sclopetaria caused by shockwaves transmitted by a posterior vector: case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20298610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-10-6
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