...Paulina Truong; Saif Aldeen Alryalat; Osama Al Deyabat; Amina Malik; Masayoshi Takashima; Andrew Go Lee Introduction: Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) can cause acute vision loss after head trauma, either due to indirect shearing forces or direct trauma, i.e., by a bony fragment of an optic canal...

... nerve is a rare mechanism of traumatic optic neuropathy in patients following head trauma. The localized compartment syndrome of the optic nerve and subjective visual symptoms were relieved following corticosteroid therapy with no initial need for surgical decompression. Although central visual acuity...

... or advertisements. Wooden foreign object Computed tomography Transorbital intra-sphenoidal penetration Facial trauma Traumatic optic neuropathy Orbital traumas are associated with a significant risk of fatal neurovascular lesions, infections, decreased mobility of the eye, and blindness. Treatment...

... and a long wooden branch was removed from the nasal cavity. Conclusion: A nasally penetrating wooden foreign body can cause traumatic optic neuropathy and vision loss on the unaffected side and can be very difficult to locate and image without any clear external evidence as to its presence. This case...