Blunt Facial Trauma Causing Isolated Optic Nerve Hematoma

Traumatic optic neuropathy is an uncommon, yet serious, result of facial trauma. The authors present a novel case of a 59-year-old gentleman who presented with an isolated blunt traumatic left optic nerve hematoma causing vision loss. There were no other injuries or fractures to report. This case hi...

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Autores principales: Parab, R., Fung, C. I., Van Der Merwe, Gerrit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23401831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/235209
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description Traumatic optic neuropathy is an uncommon, yet serious, result of facial trauma. The authors present a novel case of a 59-year-old gentleman who presented with an isolated blunt traumatic left optic nerve hematoma causing vision loss. There were no other injuries or fractures to report. This case highlights the importance of early recognition of this rare injury and reviews the current literature and management of traumatic optic neuropathy.
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spelling pubmed-35631702013-02-11 Blunt Facial Trauma Causing Isolated Optic Nerve Hematoma Parab, R. Fung, C. I. Van Der Merwe, Gerrit Case Rep Radiol Case Report Traumatic optic neuropathy is an uncommon, yet serious, result of facial trauma. The authors present a novel case of a 59-year-old gentleman who presented with an isolated blunt traumatic left optic nerve hematoma causing vision loss. There were no other injuries or fractures to report. This case highlights the importance of early recognition of this rare injury and reviews the current literature and management of traumatic optic neuropathy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3563170/ /pubmed/23401831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/235209 Text en Copyright © 2013 R. Parab et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Blunt Facial Trauma Causing Isolated Optic Nerve Hematoma
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