EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Trauma
Diagnosis: tack puncture with hypopyon

Image Comments:

In the inferior temporal quadrant at 5 o'clock and 1-2 mms from the limbus is dark linear mark that resembles a couch mark. It actually resulted from the eye's having been struck by a tack. Careful observation - perhaps with some imagination - will reveal a faint yellowish line at the limbus from 5o'clock to 7 o'clock. Gonioscopy left no doubt that a hypopyon was present in the lower angle.Yje eye recovered completely.

 

 

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