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By Theodore Leng, MD, MS, FASRS
Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University School of Medicine - Uploaded on May 20, 2020.
- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on May 21, 2020.
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- Retinal Avulsion due to Surfboard
- Condition/keywords
- choroidal rupture, retinal avulsion, choroidal avulsion
- Imaging device
- Optical coherence tomography system
- Description
- 33-year-old male who sustained a surfboard to the left orbit with orbital fractures, choroidal rupture, nasally and retinal and choroidal avulsion nasally. He also had a horseshoe retinal tear superotemorally and a resultant rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. In this OCT image, you can see where the retina broke and nasal to this break, there is fluid under the choroid.