Citation

Patel TP, Archer EL, Trobe JD. J. Neuroophthalmol. 2018; 38(1): 57-59.

Affiliation

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (TPP, ELA, JDT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Department of Neurology (JDT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/WNO.0000000000000597

PMID

29280766

Abstract

We present a case of optic nerve avulsion as a result of finger-poke injury to the eye. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated a plunging cup indicative of the avulsion, a finding not previously described. Optic nerve avulsion is a form of anterior indirect traumatic optic neuropathy evoked by a sudden severe rotation at the junction of the optic nerve and globe induced, in this case, by penetration of the finger into the nasal orbit.

Language: en