title: Blindness from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
abstract: Four patients who attempted suicide by using handguns survived bilateral optic nerve destruction with limited additional neurological damage.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000209:etiology; D020221:Optic Nerve Injuries; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging