title: An unusual complication of blunt ocular trauma: a horseshoe-shaped macular tear with spontaneous closure.
abstract: A case of horseshoe-shaped macular tear after blunt trauma with the course of the tear and the relevant findings obtained by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is described. A 21-year-old man who had suffered blunt trauma 5 days previously visited our clinic complaining of vision loss in his left eye. Ophthalmic examination and SD-OCT images revealed a horseshoe-shaped macular tear. A month later at the second visit, the macular tear was found to have spontaneously closed. There have been many cases reported previously of the spontaneous closure of traumatic macular holes. A horseshoe-shaped macular tear is an atypical clinical presentation. However, the mechanism of spontaneous closure is hypothetically as same as that for a macular hole. High-resolution images and three-dimensional maps taken with SD-OCT can provide more details on macular diseases and are more useful than time-domain OCT images.
authors.forename: Umut
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Karaca
authors.forename: Hakan A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Durukan
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Gulhane Military Medical School, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tarkan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mumcuoglu
authors.forename: Cuneyt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erdurman
authors.forename: Volkan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hurmeric
mesh_terms: D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D055815:Young Adult