Abstract

WELCH RUIZ, Gelen; CRUZ BLANCO, Magela  and  HERNANDEZ FERNANDEZ, Yardanis. Rupture of the eyeball. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2018, vol.47, n.4. ISSN 0138-6557.

ABSTRACT Ocular traumatisms represent the principal cause of loss of vision in young people and they are among the causes of blindness in the world. Trauma can result in a wide spectrum of tissue lesions of the globe and it can has devastating effect on the eyeball, since it is the most severe type of trauma in this area, with a poor visual prognosis for the patient. It is a serious accident, which often leads to nucleation as result of a bruised intense trauma. This is the report of three patients with rupture of the ocular globe with the therapeutic behavior, follow-up and visual results in each case, to show the medical community, the complexity and particularities of this traumatism.

Keywords : ocular trauma; contusion; ocular globe rupture.

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