Unique neuro-ophthalmic presentation of gun pellet injury

We describe a unique case of orbital gunshot injury with isolated intraorbital pellets lodged symmetrically in the two apices, causing identical clinical presentation, and absence of any associated globe or cerebral injury. He developed bilateral complete third nerve palsy with bilateral traumatic o...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Reena, Sharma, Sanjay, Phuljhele, Swati, Saxena, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843239
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.192303
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description We describe a unique case of orbital gunshot injury with isolated intraorbital pellets lodged symmetrically in the two apices, causing identical clinical presentation, and absence of any associated globe or cerebral injury. He developed bilateral complete third nerve palsy with bilateral traumatic optic neuropathy. The optic nerve strut prevented the pellets from going into the brain on both the sides.
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spelling pubmed-50845072016-11-14 Unique neuro-ophthalmic presentation of gun pellet injury Sharma, Reena Sharma, Sanjay Phuljhele, Swati Saxena, Rohit Oman J Ophthalmol Clinical Image We describe a unique case of orbital gunshot injury with isolated intraorbital pellets lodged symmetrically in the two apices, causing identical clinical presentation, and absence of any associated globe or cerebral injury. He developed bilateral complete third nerve palsy with bilateral traumatic optic neuropathy. The optic nerve strut prevented the pellets from going into the brain on both the sides. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5084507/ /pubmed/27843239 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.192303 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Oman Ophthalmic Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843239
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