TY - JOUR
T1 - Chorioretinal vascular anastomoses after perforating trauma to the eye
AU - Goldberg, M. F.
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A 32-year-old, healthy white man was hammering a truck part when he sustained a perforating injury in the right eye from a small piece of metal. Visual acuity was hand motions at two feet. In the 7 o'clock meridian of the right eye, a 2-mm long, perforating injury through the corneoscleral limbus and a peripheral iridotomy were present. The lens was clear, but visualization of the fundus was prevented by a small hyphema and extensive vitreous hemorrhage. Orbital x-ray films disclosed a 5 x 2 x 1-mm foreign body that appeared to be within the globe. The intraocular location was confirmed by an ultrasound study, which also indicated an attached retina. One day after the injury the comeal laceration was repaired, and the vitreous hemorrhage cleared sufficiently to allow visualization of the foreign body inferotemporally, where it lay in the vitreous near the pars plana. No fundus details could be seen. The metallic object was removed with a magnet through a pars plana sclerotomy. The scleral incision was sutured and then surrounded by cryotherapy. No complications occurred during the operation or in the immediate postoperative period. Five weeks postoperatively, the vitreous blood From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, Illinois. This study was supported in part by a research grant from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness and by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York.
PY - 1978
Y1 - 1978
N2 - A 32 year old man sustained an ocular injury with a small piece of metal. He had perforation of the retina and choroid, and later developed chorioretinal vascular anastomosis.Disabling complications, such as neovascular growth, serous transudation, or hemorrhages, did not occur within a ten-month follow up period. Interruption of Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium, with approximation of the normally separated vasculatures of the choroid and retinal, appears necessary for such anastomoses to occur.
AB - A 32 year old man sustained an ocular injury with a small piece of metal. He had perforation of the retina and choroid, and later developed chorioretinal vascular anastomosis.Disabling complications, such as neovascular growth, serous transudation, or hemorrhages, did not occur within a ten-month follow up period. Interruption of Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium, with approximation of the normally separated vasculatures of the choroid and retinal, appears necessary for such anastomoses to occur.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9394(14)75944-6
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9394(14)75944-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 623186
AN - SCOPUS:0017876748
SN - 0002-9394
VL - 85
SP - 171
EP - 173
JO - American journal of ophthalmology
JF - American journal of ophthalmology
IS - 2
ER -