Tabatabaei Seid Ali, Soleimani Mohammad, Khodabandeh Alireza
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
Orbit. 2011 Jun;30(3):165-8. doi: 10.3109/01676830.2011.558972.
To report a case of autoenucleation associated with contralateral field defect.
Observational case report.
A 36-year-old man was referred to the emergency ward with his right eye attached to a fork. His history revealed drug abuse with ecstasy.
Visual field examination revealed a temporal hemianopia on the left eye. There was no change in the visual field defect after intravenous steroid, two months after initial presentation.
Contralateral visual field defect may be associated with autoenucleation. A visual field test is recommended in all cases with traumatic enucleation.