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  2. Globe rupture - Wikipedia

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    A ruptured globe occurs when rapid intraocular pressure elevation secondary to blunt trauma results in eyewall failure. [3] The rupture site may be at the point of impact but more commonly occurs at the weakest and thinnest areas of the sclera. [4] Regions prone to rupture are the rectus muscle insertion points, optic nerve insertion point ...

  3. Eye injury - Wikipedia

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    Eye injury. Eye injury. A small piece of iron has lodged in the margin of the cornea. Specialty. Ophthalmology, neurology. Physical or chemical injuries of the eye can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion. The most obvious presentation of ocular (eye) injuries is redness and pain of the affected eyes.

  4. Sympathetic ophthalmia - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic ophthalmia. Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO), also called spared eye injury, is a diffuse granulomatous inflammation of the uveal layer of both eyes following trauma to one eye. It can leave the affected person completely blind. Symptoms may develop from days to several years after a penetrating eye injury.

  5. Subconjunctival bleeding - Wikipedia

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    Subconjunctival bleeding, also known as subconjunctival hemorrhage or subconjunctival haemorrhage, is bleeding from a small blood vessel over the whites of the eye. It results in a red spot in the white of the eye. [1] There is generally little to no pain and vision is not affected. [2][3] Generally only one eye is affected.

  6. Enucleation of the eye - Wikipedia

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    ICD-9-CM. 16.4. MeSH. D015353. [edit on Wikidata] Enucleation is the removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact. This type of ocular surgery is indicated for a number of ocular tumors, in eyes that have sustained severe trauma, and in eyes that are otherwise blind and painful. [1]

  7. Intraocular hemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    A subconjunctival hemorrhage can often occur without any obvious cause or harm to the eye. A strong enough sneeze or cough can cause a blood vessel in the eye to burst. Hyphema is a result of blunt or penetrating trauma to the orbit that increases intraocular pressure, causing tears in the vessels of the ciliary body and iris.

  8. Canthotomy - Wikipedia

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    Canthotomy (also called lateral canthotomy and canthotomy with cantholysis) is a surgical procedure where the lateral canthus, or corner, of the eye is cut to relieve the fluid pressure inside or behind the eye, known as intraocular pressure (IOC). [1] The procedure is typically done in emergency situations when the intraocular pressure becomes ...

  9. Oculomotor nerve palsy - Wikipedia

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    Oculomotor nerve palsy or oculomotor neuropathy[1] is an eye condition resulting from damage to the third cranial nerve or a branch thereof. As the name suggests, the oculomotor nerve supplies the majority of the muscles controlling eye movements (four of the six extraocular muscles, excluding only the lateral rectus and superior oblique).