RT Book, Section
A1 Knoop, Kevin J.
A1 Palma, James K.
A2 Knoop, Kevin J.
A2 Stack, Lawrence B.
A2 Storrow, Alan B.
A2 Thurman, R. Jason
SR Print(0)
ID 1181039849
T1 Globe Rupture
T2 The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw-Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260134940
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1181039849
RD 2024/04/19
AB Blunt  or  penetrating  trauma  to  the  eye  may  result  in  a  ruptured  globe.  The  diagnosis  is  obvious  when  orbital  contents  spill  from  the  globe  itself.  Occult  presentations  manifest  as  a  tiny  rent  in  the  sclera.  Ruptures  at  the  limbus,  the  margin  between  the  cornea  and  sclera,  may  cause  a  small  amount  of  iris  to  herniate,  resulting  in  an  irregularly  shaped  “teardrop”  or  “peaked”  pupil.  Choroidal  rupture  may  also  occur.  A  coloboma  of  the  iris  may  appear  similar  to  a  teardrop  pupil.