[A case of choroidal rupture due to blunt ocular trauma healed with proliferative tissue protruding into the vitreous cavity].
BACKGROUND
Indirect choroidal rupture due to blunt ocular trauma involves rupture of the choriocapillaris or the full thickness of the choroid and Bruch's membrane. The overlying retinal pigment epithelium and the sensory retina are usually intact or atrophic, but rarely ruptured. We report a case of choroidal rupture healed with proliferative tissue protruding through the sensory retina into the vitreous cavity.


METHODS
A 22-year-old man was punched in the left eye. Hypotony maculopathy and choroidal rupture passing through the macula were noted.


RESULTS
The intraocular pressure was normalized after suturing of the dialyzed ciliary body to the sclera and hypotony maculopathy was cured. Proliferative tissue formation protruding through the sensory retina into the vitreous cavity was observed 1 month after the injury. Corrected visual acuity was improved from 0.09 to 0.6. Optical coherence tomography showed that the site of the proliferative tissue was located immediately temporal to the fovea and that the fovea kept its normal form.


CONCLUSIONS
Optical coherence tomography was useful in monitoring the morphological change in the macula and predicting visual acuity in a case of blunt ocular trauma involving the macular area.
Oya
Yoshimi
Y
Department of Ophthalmology, Niigata University School of Medicine, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Niigata 951-8510, Japan.
Yoshizawa
Toyohisa
T
Aoki
Saeko
S
Kurihara
Akiko
A
Abe
Haruki
H
D000328:Adult; D016570:Bruch Membrane / Q000293:injuries; D002829:Choroid / Q000293:injuries*; D005123:Eye / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D012421:Rupture / Q000473:pathology; D014822:Vitreous Body; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000473:pathology