Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord

We present a case of an iris sphincter tear with iridodialysis, mydriasis, and hyphema secondary to a traumatic injury from a bungee cord. The correlation between the mechanism of injury and physical exam findings as well as the emergency department evaluation and management are discussed.

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Autores principales: Lee, Woo Kyung, Aljic, Sumeja, Barry, Patrick, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7949672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13280
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spelling pubmed-79496722021-03-15 Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord Lee, Woo Kyung Aljic, Sumeja Barry, Patrick Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine We present a case of an iris sphincter tear with iridodialysis, mydriasis, and hyphema secondary to a traumatic injury from a bungee cord. The correlation between the mechanism of injury and physical exam findings as well as the emergency department evaluation and management are discussed. Cureus 2021-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7949672/ /pubmed/33728213 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13280 Text en Copyright © 2021, Lee et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lee, Woo Kyung
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Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title_full Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title_fullStr Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title_full_unstemmed Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title_short Traumatic Iridodialysis Associated With Hyphema Secondary to Injury From a Bungee Cord
title_sort traumatic iridodialysis associated with hyphema secondary to injury from a bungee cord
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7949672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13280
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