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Case Reports
. 2018 Jul;66(7):1003.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_147_18.

Traumatic optic nerve head avulsion: Multimodal imaging

Prashant Jain  1 , Mahesh Gopalakrishnan  1 , Giridhar Anantharaman  1
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Case Reports

Traumatic optic nerve head avulsion: Multimodal imaging

Prashant Jain et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 Jul.
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Figure 1
(a) Multicolor photo showing partial optic nerve head avulsion with hemorrhage around disc and emanating into vitreous; (b) complete avulsion after three days of presentation; (c) avulsion at optic nerve head section on optical coherence tomography (yellow arrow); (d) an area of hypolucency on B scan at optic nerve head section (white arrow)
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